ROSES AS CUT FLOWERS 75 



extremely harmonious with the colourings of the Teas 

 and hybrid Chinas. Also in the autumn I like to 

 use with my Roses some sprays of the wild Traveller's 

 Joy {Clematis vitalba). 



Some of the free-growing Roses are beautiful cut 

 quite long, even to a length of three to four feet. 

 They are delightful decorations in rooms of fair size, 

 arranged in some large deep jar that will hold plenty 

 of water, not only for their sustenance, but as a 

 weighty counterpoise to the flower - laden branches 

 that will hang abroad rather far from the centre of 

 gravity. Roses like Madame Alfred Carriere, that 

 flower in loose bunches on long stems, and the 

 crimson half - double Reine Olga de Wurtemberg, 

 with its incomparable foliage that can. be cut almost 

 any length, show by their natural way of growth 

 how they must be arranged in long branching ways. 

 The Ramblers and Ayrshires, too, are beautiful cut 

 in yard-long branches, but are difBcult to arrange. 

 Special ways have to be devised for overcoming their 

 desire to swing round flower-side down. But placed 

 high, on the shoulder of some cabinet about six feet 

 from the ground, with the lovely clusters trending 

 downward, they are charming and beautiful room 

 ornaments. 



Great care should be given to assorting the col- 

 ours and in putting together kinds that have some 

 afftnity of blood and harmony of tint. It is well 

 never to mix Hybrid Perpetuals and Teas, except, 

 perhaps, some of the more solid Teas of the Dijon 

 class. But Roses well assorted are like a company 

 of sympathetic friends — they better one another. 



