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THE GARDEN 1 NO WORLD. 
June 13, 1908. 
should be lifted with as much soil as the 
roots will carry with them; because this 
prevents the roots and leaves being 
checked by the undue loss of moisture be¬ 
fore they recover themselves. In the case 
of plants in pots, it is different, but in 
planting them a careful gardener will 
work in the soil about the mass'taken 
from a pot in such a way as to make it 
firm without breaking the ball of soil. 
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Summer Bedding. 
Some of our readers have finished their 
summer bedding by this time, we pre¬ 
sume. Indeed, we think a good many of 
them begin too early with certain plants. 
If we could guarantee our climate after it 
once becomes fine it would be quite safe 
to put plants out, but as our climate is 
fickle and deceptive it behoves one to be 
cautious in planting out such things as 
Dahlias, Heliotropes, Tuberous Begonias, 
Alternantheras, and such like tender 
things. Those could also be left until the 
last in order to escape late May frosts. 
In some small gardens the Dahlias have 
been out for some time 4 ; and have made 
good progress, but if we had had frosty 
nights in May as we had in April the Dah¬ 
lias would have been destroyed. 
The gardener who would be successful 
every year with all classes of plants must 
pay close attention not merely to the 
weather for the time being, but also pay 
due regard to the calendar, in case a 
night’s frost should destroy the labour of 
months. Plants that might safely be put 
out at the end of May would stand a 
great risk of being destroyed if planted in 
April. 
Now that fine weather has come, it must 
not be supposed that the hardening off of 
plants prior to putting them out can be 
dispensed with. No matter how fine the 
weather, or how hot, these plants, if put 
directly out from a warm, moist house in 
full exposure to the sun, may get the 
whole of their leaves destroyed, as we have 
seen in the case of Bamboos. Whether 
from this cause or from the return of cold 
weather, plants of a delicate nature are 
liable to get a check, with loss of foliage, 
which means that they take a long time to 
recover themselves and prove effective in 
the garden. 
Plants that are turned out of boxes 
A Dwarf gj ue Iris. 
Iris pumila 
Count Andrassy. 
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Amongst the dwarf Irises are two very 
pretty blue ones which should find a 
place in every garden. They have not 
the bold effect of the German Irises, but 
they make their appearance at least a 
month earlier, and for that reason they 
have nothing to compete with them. As 
to when they do bloom depends much 
upon the weather, but April may be con¬ 
sidered their proper month, and if the 
weather is fairly mild in March they come 
into bloom quite early in April. The 
earliest to bloom is I.p. caerulea, which 
is a very tiny Iris with bright sky-blue 
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flowers that attract the eye from a great 
distance. Count Andrassy, the subject of 
the accompanying illustration, is some¬ 
what later in coming into bloom, but it 
makes up for this by constituting a suc¬ 
cession and by its much larger flowers. 
The plant varies from 6 in. to 9 in. 
high, according to vigour, and is well 
furnished with leaves at the time of 
blooming. The foliage differs from the 
German Iris only in being so much 
dwarfer. The flowers are carried on a 
level with the foliage, or slightly higner. 
The standards are deep sky-blue, while 
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Iris pumila Count Andrassy. 
