Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — A VERY RARE PLANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A VERY RARE PLANT.

It Has Bloomed in England lor the First Time. There has just bloomed for the first time in England a plant whose blossoms have hitherto shed their fragrance only on Lord Howe’s island, a tiny spot of green in the waste of

ocean to the east of the Australian continent. The plant belongs to the iris family and is known as the wedding flower, says an exchange. The blooms, which are pure white, save for a golden-yellow crescent-shaped blotch at the base of the alternate or outer segments, measure each over four inches across. They last only one day, but once the flowering season begins it extends over a long period. The specimens at Kew Gardens reached England twenty years ago, but the lack of the subtropical conditions to which they were accustomed kept them from displaying their natural beauty until of late.