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House & Garden 
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Fresh Berries—With Cream 
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bushes with “open” tops which will 
allow a circulation of air and the 
needful sunshine. 
Perhaps the cultivated plant of any 
variety never existed which was not 
occasionally subject to some sort of 
disease or insect pest. Certainly the 
small fruits are not immune, though 
there is nothing in this connection 
which need cause you to hesitate 
about growing them. If red rust 
appears on the leaves of your black¬ 
berries or raspberries, cut out and 
destroy the badly infected plants, at 
the same time spraying the rest with 
Bordeaux mixture as a preventative. 
Anthracnose is checked in a similar 
manner, and the remedy for borers 
is to cut and destroy the canes which 
they have attacked. 
In the case of currants and goose¬ 
berries, the commonest trouble is the 
currant worm, which eats the foliage 
and will sometimes strip the bushes 
of all their leaves if unchecked. Two 
good sprayings with arsenate of lead 
will prevent his ravages—the first 
applied as soon as the leaves appear, 
and the second when the plants are 
in flower, San Jose scale, should it 
put in an appearance, is controlled 
by soluble oil spray during the dor¬ 
mant season. Cutting the canes for 
borers, and Bordeaux for rust or 
anthracnose, complete the usual rem¬ 
edy list. 
The number of varieties of these 
cane fruits on the market today is 
almost bewildering. However, if an 
experienced person chargesNinto their 
midst, and does not lose his head, 
he is apt to emerge from the conflict 
with a list about like this: 
Blackberries —Early Harvest, El¬ 
dorado, Snider and Rathbun. 
Raspb erric s —C uthbert (red), 
Golden Queen (yellow), Cumberland 
(black). Black Diamond (black), 
Columbian (purple), and St. Regis 
(ever-bearing). 
Currants —Perfection (large red). 
Cherry and Fay’s Prolific (red), and 
White Grape (white). 
Gooseberries —Industry and Crown 
Bob (both of these are red, and bear 
the unexcelled, very large fruit char¬ 
acteristic of the English sorts). 
Downing is perhaps the best of the 
smaller-fruited American varieties, 
and produces very heavily. 
Do not judge gooseberry 
size by the American varie¬ 
ties. These English berries 
are much larger and better 
DEPT. D., CLEVELAND, OHIO, U, S. A. 
Flowers of the Rainbow Goddess 
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true blue flowers. As this Iris inter¬ 
regna shows the dwarf foliage of 
one parent with the tall stems of the 
other—the flowers are lifted from 
12" to 18" above the leaves—it seems 
to be a most desirable addition. Its 
flowers are perfect in form and have 
clear and decided colors. 
Native American Sorts 
For some reason or other the irises 
which are native to the United States 
are not very commonly seen in culti¬ 
vation. Perhaps this is because the 
loveliest of them are native to the 
Western portions, and difficult to 
establish in the East; but probably it 
is because, like everything else, they 
are undervalued because they are 
familiar—just “wild flowers.” 
One of the best of these is Iris 
long ipctala, superba, a china-blue 
flower, altogether one of the softest 
and loveliest colors there is. This 
is taller than most kinds, sometimes 
rising to 40" or even more. It is a 
native of California. A middle 
Western-Southern species is Iris 
euprea or I. fulva, with coppery 
flowers that are sometimes flecked 
with green and blue. Then there is 
Iris cristata, dwarf in size and crest¬ 
ed, the flowers being lavender blue, 
a very dainty and lovely species. 
Iris versicolor is a violet blue and 
native to the Northern sections of 
the United States; and in the North¬ 
west dwells Iris setosa, which is also 
found in Japan. This, it will be re¬ 
called, is one of the species used by 
European hybridizers to cross with 
the Japanese I. Iccvigata. 
The largest iris, in point of general 
size and not applying the adjective 
to the flowers alone, is Iris ochro- 
leuca gigantea, a native of Syria. 
This is commonly grown in gardens 
and has been for a good many years, 
usually as I. orientalis. There is a 
white form, but the type itself is yel¬ 
low. The plants average 4' in height 
and make majestic clumps. 
One other distinct species I must 
mention, and that is 7. Sibirica. This 
has been in our gardens for over a 
hundred years, and it too is a large 
growing kind. The flowers are pur¬ 
plish or lilac blue, on stems 3' high. 
Note, please, that the variety orienta¬ 
lis of this species should not be con¬ 
founded with the species Iris orienta¬ 
lis just mentioned; they are distinct 
plants, one being yellow flowered and 
the other purplish or white. 
With all of these races and strains 
to choose from, it is of course of 
first importance to know something 
about the season of bloom. By mak¬ 
ing use of some of all of them it is 
possible to have irises in bloom from 
early in May to the end of July, and 
even into August. 
Some need a great deal of mois¬ 
ture, wdiile others are equally satis¬ 
fied without it. As a general guide 
we may say that all those having 
thick and surface creeping rootstocks 
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