





Our talleststemmed iris—Iris giganticaerulea, growing in 
a swamp in southern Louisiana. In this swamp violet-flow- 
ered irises prevailed. The plants were mostly three to five 
feet tall. The planis in the colony shown above were fully 
seven feet tall. If some of the drooping leaves were straight- 
ened up they would overtop one’s head.—Reproduced from 
Journal of New York Botanical Garden by permission of Dr. 
John K. Small. 
sulting in larger pinnacles of flowers. If feeding is 
resorted to, a handful of green cow-manure to a 
watering pot containing two and a half or three 
gallons of water is sufficient; and if any of the 
popular fertilizers are used, a small handful to the 
same amount of water will answer. Water twice in 
between with clean water. Plants for a succession 
may be started when the first are beginning to show 
the crimson at the end of the flower and so on until 
the end of July or first of August. 
In our nursery they are grown out doors, the pots 
being plunged. They bloom from early May until 
near winter. They will stand a temperature of 30 
degrees. They are given winter protection. Many 
will lose their leaves. Plants growing in the ground 
may be killed back by heavy freezes but will come 
back from the roots more vigorous in the spring. 
They do well in full sun as well as in shade. 
Prices—Clerodendron: 
2% inch pots $20.00 per hundred 
12.00 for fifty 
4.00 per dozen 
2% inch pots 
2% inch pots 
4 inch pots 10.00 per dozen 
shipped in paper pots, no charge for packing. 
The Louisiana Wild Native Iris 
(See color plate) 
The extensive study of large natural fields of iris 
in Southern Louisiana—but more especially in the 
vicinity of Algiers and New Orleans, by Dr. Charles 
Victor Kraft, and the consequent awakening and 
heightening of interest throughout the United States, 
opens to the CYPRESS KNEE NURSERY unpar- 
alleled scope for service in propagating, distribut- 







y 
A clump of white flowered Iris (Iris Elepliantina) in a 
colony where it was discovered in 1926. The locality was 
a swamp about fifteen miles East of New Orleans. The colony 
was totally destroyed within two years after it was discov- 
ered.—Reproduced from Journal of New York Botanical Gar- 
den by permission of Dr. John K. Small. 
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