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Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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owers for large decorations at the timeof the year cut flowers are most difficult to obtain. April 29, 1891. j Garden and Forest. 197 Foreign Correspondence. London Letter. Iris Robinsoniana.—The flowering of this plant at Kew isan event of considerable interest to English horticulturists, towhom its exceptional size and beauty were long since madeknown by botanists, but its flowers have never before beenproduced in England. It is larger in leaf and inflorescence The flower-spike is from five to six feet high, branchedabove and producing from 120 to 200 blooms which expandin slow succession, remaining open only a few hours. Thisspecies is a native of Lord Howes Island, where it was foundby Mr. Charles Moore, Director of the Botanic Gardens atSydney, when on a visit to that island in 1869. In his report hestated : A large Iridaceous plant, called the Wedding Flower,was found sparingly in two or three situations. Of this seedvessels only were obtained, but the flowers are described as
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Fff* 35—Aster Tarlaricus.—See page 196. than any other known Iris, the plant at Kew being seven feethigh and six feet through, the leaves eight feet long by fourinches in width, gracefully curved near the top and of a healthyglaucous green ; they remain fresh on the plant several years.This specimen is growing in a sunny, airy position in thehouse where Agaves, Aloes, Dasylirions, etc., are grown, andit is planted on a raised mound which is kept fairly saturatedby drip from a water-tap close by. It is about six years old. very beautiful. . . . In appearance it resembles a largeMorcea, but will probably prove a new genus. Benthamdescribed it under the name of Moraa Robinso7iiana in theFlora of Australia. The expandedflowerisabout fourinchesacross, pure white, except at the base of the larger segments,where there are some lines of golden yellow. It is remarkable that a solitary species of Iris should occurin a small island off the east coast of Australia, thousands of 198 Garden and

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