162 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, Céline 
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 I. 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, 
