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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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Gatesii.—I noticed this new Iris about this time lastyear, when it flowered with Herr Max Leichtlin at BadenBaden. Blooms of it were exhibited a few days ago in Lon-don, and they fully bore out the high opinion formed of thisspecies by Herr Leichtlin—namely, that its blooms are thelargest and most beautiful of all Iris flowers. In habit theplant resembles /. Susidna, and it is very similar to that spe-cies in the size and form of its large flowers, so much so, in-deed, that some authorities declare it to be only a color varietyof /. Susiana. If anything, /. Gatesii is the larger of the two,and, instead of the dusky hue which characterizes /. Susiana,the color of the new plant is pale lavender, with a dull purpleshade about the base of the falls. The two species ought tobe grown together* They apparently thrive under the sametreatment and bloom at the same time. /. Susiana has beenvery beautiful at Kew during the past fortnight, a bed of about July 22, 1891.) Garden and Forest. 34i
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Fig. 58.—The Red Oak (Quercus rubra).—See page 337. 342 Garden and Forest. (Number 178. fifty strong plants having flowered well. The cultivation ofthis very old, rare and very handsome Iris is but little under-stood. It should here be planted in the open border, or in abed of rich soil, in a sunny position, in November, and letalone until its leaves begin to turn yellow, say in July, whenthe plants should be lifted and dried exactly as though theywere Tulips. This is the practice of the Dutch growers, whounderstand this Iris and all the species of its section betterthan we do. A well-known Dutch bulb-merchant recom-mended this treatment to be tried at Kew, and it has been fol-lowed with excellent results. I. Gatesii is at present somewhatexpensive, but it will probably soon become as plentiful as/. Susiana is at present in Holland. A trio OF giants are now flowering at Kewforthe first timein England ; they are Cerens gigantens, the Mexican colossalCactus which we know so well in

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