Two hundred garden flowers, each with F. Edward Hulme's hand-drawn colour plate and Shirley Hibberd's essay — five series of the best-loved flower book of the Victorian garden, complete.

Spanish Iris

2 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

Spanish Iris: English

The Spanish iris flowers earlier than the English, and is the taller of the two, and the more fragrant. The Spanish iris produces a smaller…

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