(SPEC) 'Insignis'

1879,

'Insignis'

References; Gardeners' Chronicles 11: 893. 1879 illustrated offers the following note: "Iris iberica var. insignis (fig. 100). —We learn from the New Plant and Bulb Company, Colchester, that this beautiful variety was found growing amongst a batch of imported roots, collected some three years ago, of the ordinary type, from which it is most distinct, and, if possible, more beautiful. The standards in the ordinary form are white, and sometimes slightly spotted; in this form the standards are in colour a lilac-white, veined and thickly spotted throughout with a deeper tint of the same hue. The falls are white, veined with black lines, densely spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. The flowers are much larger, and the whole plant dwarfer in habit. A word as to cultivation :
Plant in the hottest and driest situation in the garden, fully exposed to the sun; no manure is required, but a quantity of coarse sand well mixed with the soil will be found acceptable. In such a situation Iris iberica will luxuriate and flower most profusely. In spite of the severe winter the beds of it at Colchester were never better, and are at present a glorious sight.
Messrs. Veitch, who exhibited two pans of the ordinary form at Kensington this week, also find the plant does well in the light soil of their nursery at Fulham."

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