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At 
Cypress Knee, the country home and office of Dr. C. V. Kraft of the Cypress Knee Nursery 
(Algiers,) New Orleans, La., where extensive study is being made of the Louisiana Wild Native 
Irises. 
-i- Jhe JZomsiana Wild Jdative 3ris + 
The discovery and extensive study of large natural fields of iris in south¬ 
ern Louisiana,—but more extensively in the vicinity of Algiers and New Or¬ 
leans,—by John K. Small, Ph. D., Sc. D., who has been working with the New 
York Botanical Garden, and the consequent awakening and heightening of in¬ 
terest among people of the entire United States, opens to the CYPRESS KNEE 
NURSERY unparalleled scope for service in distributing, propagating and per¬ 
petuating this lovely species of unsurpassed beauty. 
The further discovery that the Louisiana wild native iris lends itself read¬ 
ily to transplanting makes possible the cultivation of fields of these plants 
throughout the country. Dr. Small says, “Once established, these plantations 
would care for themselves in an environment which their ancestors occupied 
before man came on the scene and destroyed what nature had planted and 
developed through ages.” Our experience, resulting from letters received 
from those to whom shipments have been made by us, justifies us in stating 
that these plants will thrive in any state in our Union. 
The iris reaches its maximum development in Louisiana. Several thou¬ 
sand specimens of th e mammoth iris, some of them more than seven feet tall, 
grow in southern Louisiana in more than two hundred hues of lavendar, vio- 
LOUISIANA WILD NATIVE IRIS 
