Bowles, Edward Augustus, 1865-1954 · London, T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 317
-scape with a purple haze for miles from noon to teatime,just while the fugacious flowers are open. It has beensaid that it is the flower a business man never sees, excepton Sundays and Whit Monday, for when brought toEngland it still adheres to its hours of ppening and closingas punctually as a… … Eucalyptus cordata. (See p. 285.) The Iris Walk in May but they have long since disappeared, and only the purpletype with its conspicuous white-spotted falls now appearsin the frame. I have had it sent to me from Spain, Malta,and Afghanistan, but can see no difference among them.Iris mellita…
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