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The Garden Magazine, July, 1924 
O, FLOWER-DE-LUCE, BLOOM ON, AND LET THE RIVER 
LINGER TO KISS THY FEET! 
O, FLOWER OF SONG, BLOOM ON, AND MAKE FOREVER 
THE WORLD MORE FAIR AND SWEET” 
Henry IV. Longfellow 
The Japanese Iris, with its big floppy blooms lifted high 
on slender stalks, is full of character and grace and fitly 
terminates the long procession of Irises that thread their 
way through gardens from May till mid-July. Here at 
Milton, Mass., Dr. Harris Kennedy has supplied it with 
growing conditions and a setting much like that of its 
native Japan and it seems to be responding gratefully 
