Excerpt from IrisesThe chapters on the best species for planting in different situations form a garden-guide of judicious advice to the cultivator, and along with the concluding calendar provide a directory by means of which any gardener may achieve success in Iris-culture and enjoy the delight of uninterrupted succession of bloom from January to December.The whole story is necessarily brief within the compass of so small a volume - nevertheless compendious. It is, however, no secret that in this little guide for everybody we have only a whet to the banquet which Mr. Dykes has prepared for us in the larger book, with full descriptions and many illustrations of the species of Iris, that is to appear shortly through the enterprise of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. In relation to that larger work this sketch will be a primer. In their association Horti culture will have a story of Iris in Present-day Gardening for which Mr. Dykes will merit gratitude.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.