Identifier: homegardennotest00jeky (find matches)
Title: Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
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Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green
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ntalis, do fairly well, but do not attain more thanhalf their proper height. An Iris that likes dampmay be known, like many another water-loving plant,by a hollow reed-like stem. Many of these beautiful plants I cannot grow wellfor want of a stronger soil. Such are the fine varietiesof the English and Spanish bulbous-rooted Irises; Ispecially regret being unable to grow with any degreeof success the splendid Thunderbolt, a garden develop-ment of Iris hisitanica. It grows four feet high inrich strong soil; its garden name fitly describes itslurid thunder-cloud-like colouring. Our two native Irises are both worthy of a placein the garden. Iris pseud-acorus, the Yellow Flag ofour river banks, is a conspicuously beautiful plant, notonly because of its bold growth and bright flower, butalso because of the harmony of colouring between thefull yellow of the bloom and the yellow-green of thefoliage. The summer value of Iris fatidissima consistschiefly in the handsome tufts of dark-green half-
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St. Brunos Lily and London Ikidk. MIDSUMMER 75 polished leaves, but its time of beauty is from lateautumn till mid-winter, when the large pods show thebrilliant scarlet seeds. But as the heavy heads benddown and get splashed with earth, I cut them as soonas they burst open, for indoor winter decoration, firsthanging them up stalk upwards in bunches, for thestems to dry and stiffen. The flowers, which are outin June, are small, and though curiously veined andcoloured, and interesting to examine in the hand, areof no garden value. One of the happiest mixtures of plants it has everbeen my good fortune to hit on is that of St. BrunosLily and London Pride, both at their best about thesecond week of June. The lovely little Mountain Lily—fit emblem of a pure-souled saint—stands uprightwith a royal grace of dignity, and bears with an air ofmodest pride its lovely milk-white bloom and abundantsheaves of narrow blue-green leaves. It is not a realLily but an Anthericum; no plant, however, be

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