FLOWER GARDENING 



formal hedge to screen the planted space from 

 view. 



Plant hybrid perpetual and hybrid tea roses just 

 as if they were so many cauliflowers or eggplants. 

 Use a large number of one kind in preference to 

 a few of many kinds, so that no mixing wil be neces- 

 sary when cut in quantity for the house. The white 

 Frau Karl Druschki is among the best hybrid per- 

 petuals for cutting with long stems, particularly 

 when partially opened. A dozen plants of this, or 

 Mabel Morrison, or Baroness de Rothschild or 

 General Jacqueminot, is better than three of each. 

 La France is a fine hybrid tea for the purpose; so 

 are Killarney, Griiss an Teplitz and Kaiserin Au- 

 guste Victoria. Such old teas as Isabella Sprunt 

 and Safrano, the very fragrant noisette, Celine 

 Forestier, and the moss rose, Blanche Moreau, 

 are further selections from a wide range; give 

 the teas extra winter protection. Where quick 

 results are desired, buy two-year-old plants un- 

 less they are novelties, thirty-five cents is a fair 

 price. 



There are no better perennials for cutting than 

 the German, Siberian and Japanese irises, brief 

 as the life of the blossoms is. The selfs are by far 

 the best the purple, pale, blue, straw-colored and 

 pearl German, the blue Siberian and the kindred 

 white /. orientalis and the purple and clear white 

 Japanese. The two Japanese kinds go well to- 

 gether in vases and blue cornflower is a good 

 accompaniment for the straw-colored German. 



