Excerpt from The Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. 56: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, July to December, 1914
Another point, division after ¿owering in August or early September is best. You will find in early autumn quantities of new roots pushing, so that by early planting-you gain all this new root action. Again, in February, count less fibrous roots are pushed out. This is the time to mulch freely, and about May dam your ditches, if possible, and ¿ood freely. Division of the clumps every two or three years is good, and planting in fresh soil, as such greedy rooters quickly exhaust the surroundings.
You may ask, Why take all this trouble? Well, if you do you will have foliage over 3 feet in height, and spikes 4 feet high, five to six on a clump, and your water-side and ditches will glow with colour, huge ¿owers, more like gigantic butter¿ies just poised, and such a combination of colour as I do not think is to be found in any other plants. One more point, always plant in fullest exposure in the sun; remember they can not have too much water in the growing season, but when at rest they should have as little as possible.
I have referred to crossing the water with low stone bridges. Long, broad, ¿at stones placed just above the water surface, and crossing your narrow stream at intervals, or the use of step ping-stones, or both combined, are fine features in the water garden, and always at such crossings group at either hand, as has already been sug gested, Iris Kaempferi and tall reeds and rushes. When rightly placed, and not too many of them, these give you that necessary feeling of support, and seem the natural finish to the bridge or stepping-stones.
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