from even the smaller splits. It, therefore, presents very definite 
and unique production problems, not the least of which is to save 
enough of the little splits to build up and strengthen the foundation 
stocks. YELLOW QUEEN has good, long, wiry stems. It flowers pro- 
fusely, often with more than two flowers per stem. Its color is a 
good golden yellow and while the flower is not large, it is of nice 
proportions. Several new yellow iris have recently made their bow, 
among them GoLpEN Harvest and GoLpEN Emperor. Although 
both have much larger flowers than YELLOW QUEEN, they are not 
nearly as graceful and refined. Best of all the yellow iris to date is 
GOLDEN LION. 
A Perfect Flower 
Go.pEN Lion is that curious phenomenon, something that we 
find in the plant world only rarely, but often enough to be marked 
down as a definite occurrence; that is, a perfect flower. ‘This is not 
just a rash statement, made to promote the particular variety. 
Among bulbous plants there have been other such perfect flowers. 
Darwin tulip Clara Butt, for all its fifty years, remains without a 
flaw. Daffodil King Alfred, of the same vintage, has no trouble at 
all in holding its position as the most popular and outstanding 
flower of the entire daffodil family. Among the iris GOLDEN LION 
fulfills the same role. It sets the standard for all other iris. Although 
it appears to have one flaw, since it seems to be a slow propagator, 
that may not be the case, since we have never had a large enough 
stock of it to make an adequate test with various methods of pro- 
duction. GOLDEN Lion has been so much in demand and is so pretty 
that it has always been sold before we could accumulate any con- 
siderable quantity. It is a ruffled golden yellow iris with graceful 
and well-proportioned flowers borne on tall, wiry stems. The 
foliage is narrow and slight and the whole plant is most attractive, 
both in the garden and when cut. It is an extremely late iris and 
may well be, in part, of Spanish iris origin. 
Among the white iris the old Wuirr Excetsior has pretty well 
been eliminated in favor of WuiTe SupERIOoR and WHITE PERFEC- 
TION. Both are expensive, the latter still far too much so, but they 
will soon replace WuiTE Excersior. Recently in an old garden I 
found a small stock of the Spanish iris, KING oF THE Wuires. This 
is a charming, very pure white iris with a very narrow, golden 
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