White Roof Iris (Iris tectorum 'Alba')

White Roof Iris (Iris tectorum 'Alba')Hardy, late spring flowering, evergreen perennial Description: Ruffled, orchid like crested iris has white petals with yellow veins on the crests and falls; flower stalks form amid or slightly above the sword like leaves. Habit: Forms dense clumps with low, broad fans of heavily ribbed foliage 10 to 12 inches high and spreads 2 to 3 feet wide Culture: Prefers well drained soil; fertilize in spring and side dress with manure or compost in fall. Grows

He attends a Masonic cornerstone-laying ceremony for the nascent Central College's first pavilion early in October 1817 and is greatly pleased by the passage on 21 February 1818 of a law establishing a commission to plan a new state university

it was in the collection of Empress Josephine of France

growing 4 to 6 feet high and 3 to 4 feet wide

Print length: 766 pages

ISBN-13:  978-0691121215

Writing to James Madison from France in 1785

whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently

An 1805 shipment of plants sent to Jefferson by the Lewis & Clark Expedition included this species

Native to Britain

Jefferson Looney is Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series

and said that this variety "exceeded anything I have tasted since I left France

and re-introduced in 1793