specially 
after growing them side by side for many 
Michael’s (minion. 
Iris Ricardi has been imported several 
vicinity of Mersina by Siehe and almost ;. .. 
8d ? tt 1 . and Kotschy. Altho it belongs to”the'lame' 
wit 8 u Uch ,f h0 ^ er stemmed a »d has smaller flowers. 
ceptionally large, but it also has 
a “R 11 ri ch in lime, and plenty of \_ 
generally slightly flexuous. By hybridiza- 
“ : good qualities and yet ameli- 
ults. Like the Oncocyclus 
—L'trt 0 ? twu «»ve oeen preservea; mme. Claude 
he MW «/$****) has devel °Ped the large flowers of the mother 
ne o«im,r of Kochii. in its first blooms, the standards were flat 
interceded for it, I should have thrown it 
never occurred again: Mme. Bories 
arded a certificate of merit 
of the Ricardi hybrids 
n^r^ib ? e £ ^ jeBty has given a series of good se 
. Dumas, de Forcrand, Prof. Scheubel, i 
itained more or less the soft rose color 
seedlings there is one called Kashmir 
^j^aneuom^ with large flowers of an white, Th 
^larly because I have ne, 
r ith itself a_ j . nr riM , fpS 
Sir^Michael 
Kashmiriana 
, » with it 
I* Ricardi 
; seedlings repro- 
I. Ricardi and 1 
» shall doubtless 
why the i_|___ 
v ‘™ d «uu usea pallida Tkim„- 1 wished to repeat Sir Michaels 
results give a rather lar^“ tlCa place of aa ordinary pallida, the 
Miss Cavell, a beauUJhJ^JSHS^^u? of albinos * the best of which is 
£»£ easily grown here in £Sw hlt lL with an orange-yellow beard. 
North, other seedlings have France U is very delicate in the 
Mile. Schwartz, Jeannie Sw streaked with blue-purple, and 
flowers, por the Autissier have more or less pale blue 
x vairiegata, and vice veresT J aI1 have str ong stalks. Iris Ricardi 
Darius has given Mme. DuSide™ generally sterile altho Ricardi x 
* ® racchus has given M l w of ****■ seedlings and Ricardi 
crossed with varie^ta, have ^ Un &>rtunately neither, when 
-As I have already said a™ £ rtlle seed - 
flexuous stems and it | S for a th^ mber of theee seedlings have s” 1 " 1 *’ 
stitaH^ Cni S? la ’ or its hybrid^^hf^ 011 ^ that 1 have been lead 
Stitution. Suzanne ^ -.which should also irive, a hardi, 
Auxiasier obtain^ also give a hardier , 
7SSSS.' 
• and the plant vigorous. 
