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good  one  to  follow  in  ita  main  lines.  Have  we  not  Sir  M.  Foster’s  Iris  K^mpferi. 
practice' on  almost  similar  lines?  If  I  may  be  allowed  to  make  a  |  I  am  anxious  to  return  to  tbis  Iris  very  briefly  with  the  object  of 
further  remark,  it  is  that  we  are  as  far  off  a  diagnosis  of  the  true  cause  bringing  out  more  clearly  the  view  I  strenuously  hold,  that  in  most 
of  the  failure  of  Iris  Susiana  as  we  were  at  first.  We  have,  however,  cases  it  is  by  no  means  necessary  to  keep  the  plants  dry  in  winter. 
Fig.  2.— HUS  SUSIANA. 
apparently  an  agreement  that  Mr.  Upex  is  not  likely  to  succeed  with  I 
his  in  their  present  place.  Of  the  various  Oncocyclus  Irises  that  I  ; 
havo  grown  I  find  I.  lupina  the  easiest  to  manage.  It  flowers  in  my 
garden  under  conditions  in  which  I.  Susiana  is  a  complete  failure. 
This  is  not  easily  secured  in  many  places,  especially  because  at  that 
time  we  have  more  moisture  than  in  ordinary  summers,  when  it  has 
been  recommended  that  they  be  kept  moist.  One  may,  for  example, 
instance  the  plants  in  the  bog  at  CUasnevin  Royal  Rotanio  Gardens. 
