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Excerpt from The Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. 42: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, July to December, 1907
I had under cultivation a charming miniature Iris under this name. It has leaves just a foot high, slender, and very numerous. The flowers are coloured a clear violet as regards the falls, standards, and style branches, but the blade of the falls is contracted and coloured orange, lined with blue. Iris graminea is akin to this plant in habit and colour scheme, but whereas the leaves of I. Graminea hide its flowers, the reverse is the case in I. Prismatica, for the foliage is hidden by its flowers. A desire to increase this plant by division of the clumps proved disastrous, for the plants all died. It is a very charming Iris, not markedly showy individually, but the flowers are exquisitely formed and coloured. I. Purdyi. - This is a vigorous plant of recent introduction, and one whose flowers resemble those of I. Versicolor in shape, but are coloured a rich blue and are singularly true to colour. The leaves are slender, grass-like, erect, and are arranged in fan-shaped clusters of from 10 to 12. The stems exceed 1 foot in height, and bear several flowers each. The falls are coloured pale blue with violet margins, and a patch of white occurs at the bend of the blade. The standards are half the size of the falls, and the whole flower averages 4 inches in diameter. It is a very showy plant, easy of culture, and suit able for the plant border. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.