Tall Bearded Iris, Fleur-De-Lis; A Flower of Songs: Names, Classification, Structure, Planting, Care, Enemies, Propagation, Hybridism, Shipping, Uses (Classic Reprint)

THE IRIS has long been a flower of song. Ever since the early days we find it in the poet's lays.
Iris, which Drilon water feedes,
And Narons bancke with other weedes.
Nicander: Treacles. (2d Cent. B. C.) Tr. by John Gerarde.
For whom the fruitage of this strain, my Muse, And who among the bards hath made this wreath? Meleager wove it, and by his weaving gives For keepsake to most noble Diocles. Here many lilies are of Anyte,
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Vine of Simonides, and twisted in
Nossis, thine Iris flower that breathes of A4yrrh,

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