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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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preference it is for leaf mold and sharp sand, a preference it shares in common with its congener the Japanese iris. It requires less water to bloom well than the Jap- anese variety, but should be well supplied during the budding and blooming period. While it may be success- fully grown in partial shade too much shade is to be avoided; a position where it will receive the morning sun will prove as successful as any, and where it may have some protection from bleak winds in winter. It should not be planted where the water can stand about its roots in winter, but be given a well drained position. The iris is always more effective when grown in long rows and for best ef- fect should never be mixed with other flowers. When naturalized among shrubbery or along the course of streams—whether natural or artificial—and in such positions it is always at its best, it should be distributed in groups or large clumps rather widely separated. In planting the iris the roots should be merely covered with soil as this is one of the plants which love to have their roots close to the surface, for this reason a mulch of lawn clip- pings over the surface of the bed dur- ing summer is beneficial, and in the fall the ground between the roots may be covered with old manure, but it should not be allowed to cover the crown of the plants as it is apt to in- duce decay.
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yellow, blue and pink, light and dark blue, and rosy lilac varieties that are striking and beautiful, a description of which belongs properly to the florist's catalogue, and any of which are a real acquisition to the hardy garden. Any good garden soil seems to suit the German iris, perhaps if it has a The Splendid Flowers Beautify Any Landscape

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