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ROYAL IRIS GARDENS 
1934 
Beardless Iris 
Crested or Evansia Iris 
In this group the falls have a crest that corresponds to the beard of Bearded Iris. The 
American Species are the smallest and most dwarf of all Irises, while the Foreign Species 
are taller with beautiful and unusual blooms quite different from Bearded Iris. They are 
all fine rock garden subjects, as they require a well drained, sandy soil. Work plenty of 
shredded peat moss or leaf mold into the soil to hold moisture for them. They bloom most 
freely in full sun, but will stand half shade. The dwarfs flower very early, the others 
blooming with the Bearded. 
Native American Dwarfs 
The American Dwarfs have beautifully minute blooms of the most exquisite perfection of 
detail imaginable. These dainty little gems are particularly charming in the rock garden, 
where their lovely soft colorings are at home with the other wildings. 
CRISTATA (North Carolina) White Crested. 
4" A lovely shade of clear lavender, with 
white crest. Fragrant; floriferous and a 
fast grower, with broad light green leaves 
that are very ornamental.$ .25 
CRISTATA (Alabama) Orange Crested. 4" 
A paler shade of the same lovely lavender, 
with a bright orange crest on the Falls. 
Free blooming and sweet scented.$ .35 
CRISTATA ALBA (Arkansas) 5" A beauti¬ 
ful pure white with large, brilliant gold 
crest. Exquisitely beautiful, and very fra¬ 
grant. A stronger grower than the other 
Cristatas . $1.00 
LACUSTRIS (Wisconsin) 2" An exceedingly 
tiny, beautifully shaped little Iris of soft 
lavender blue. Very small foliage, less 
than half the size of Cristata. If given 
moisture, regularly blooms in the Fall. 
Delicately perfumed and very scarce..$ .50 
VERNA (North Carolina) Coastal Form. 3" 
Brilliant lilac blue with orange crests. 
Slightly smaller blooms than Cristata, and 
much bluer. Very narrow, long, grass like, 
evergreen leaves. Very dainty, with fine 
fragrance ..$ .35 
VERNA (Virginia) Piedmont Form. 3" 
The same brilliant lilac blue, banded orange 
at haft, but a little larger bloom with 
broader evergreen leaves. The Piedmont 
Form is midway in size, and width of leaf, 
between the Coastal and Mountain Forms. 
All three are floriferous, with violet fra¬ 
grance .$ .35 
VERNA (Alabama) Mountain Form. 4" 
Larger flowers with broader petals and 
paler, softer blue than the others, with 
larger orange crest area. Much larger and 
stronger in growth, with broader leaves 
that are glaucous blue green. Later in 
bloom than the others. Very fine.. . .$ .50 
Foreign Species 
These species are larger, stronger growing Iris than the American Evansias, having beautiful 
foliage that is very ornamental, that of Gracilipes being tufted and grasslike, and very dainty, 
while the two Tectorums have broad, bright green leaves that form a rather large, but short, 
mass of pretty green foliage, both being quite suitable for; rock gardens. The blooms of the 
Tectorums are particularly artistic, being produced in great profusion, and of an attractive, 
irregular shape, quite different from any other Iris. 
nent feathery white crest. Unusual blooms 
produced in abundance.$ .25 
TECT0RUM ALBA (Chinese Species) 24" 
An exquisitely beautiful pure white form 
of the above. This white form of Tectorum 
is very rare and seldom offered for 
sale . $1.50 
GRACILIPES (Japanese Species) 6" A lovely 
little pale lilac flower, touched with orange 
on the haft and crest. Slender grass-like 
leaves .$ .75 
TECTORUM (Chinese Species). 24" This is 
the “Roof Iris” of Japan, which thrives in 
the straw thatch of their cottage roofs. The 
flowers are a deep lilac blue, with a promi- 
