House and Garden 
—and obtain through him 
the vases used in the can¬ 
delabra form mentioned. 
This should bring the cost 
down to considerably less 
than five dollars. 
The vases, which are 
about two-and-a-half 
inches in diameter at the 
top, are set some three 
inches apart, from centre 
to centre, allowing an 
open, dainty decoration, 
free from stiffness. 
A new and admirable 
flower holder has lately 
been offered by a Western 
florist that sells at a price 
within the reach of all. 
An Irishman would de¬ 
scribe it as a solid glass 
dish with holes in it. It 
comes in two sizes—the 
larger one being four 
inches in diameter and two 
and o ne-h a 1f thick. 
Twenty-seven holes, al¬ 
most large enough to admit 
an ordinary sized lead 
pencil, run longitudinally from top to bottom; it 
costs at retail, fifty cents. I bis may be set in bowls 
or glass dishes of equal depth and used with effect. 
When the smaller iris is used—such as the English, 
Spanish, pumila or graminea, a shallow glass bowl 
much larger in diameter than the holder, filled with 
water, produces a dainty and natural effect if the 
natural foliage is used and arranged properly. 
What to put into them is the next consideration. 
Among the shrubs, blooms of the Deutzias, exo¬ 
chorda, fairy rose “Cecile Bruner,” many of the 
Rosa AX 7 TIIL.E this rose bears a most for- 
Spinosissima midable name— more easily pro¬ 
nounced by those who lisp—it is withal, at the time 
of its bloom, one of the most charming of its race. 
Coming, as it does, from the Altai Mountains— 
The Ghin-shau, or Golden Mountains of the Chi¬ 
nese—in its Siberian range, where the sub-alpine 
meadows are rich in soil, but cold in climate, it 
stands our winters unprotected and unharmed. 
This is a desideratum of much value to many of 
us and I am one—who live in a climate uncon¬ 
genial to the better class of roses. 
It is classed with the Scotch rose— R. Spinosis- 
sima, but is a much taller grower. 
Unfortunately when first introduced, it bore the 
spiraes, or any small- 
flowered forms are good. 
Most of these will furnish 
their own green, but with 
sweet peas and others it 
makes a better effect if the 
foliage of the meadow rue 
is used quite freely. I 
like T ball drum dio ic u m 
the best. Its foliage so 
resembles the maiden-hair 
fern that it is often mis¬ 
taken for it. Its keeping 
qualities are unsurpassed, 
and as its fronds stand out 
at almost right angles with 
the stem it forms a leafy 
base for the flowers to 
nestle in. It will grow 
almost anywhere, and may 
be planted in between tall- 
growing shrubs in semi¬ 
shade, but it is well to 
plant some also in more 
open places which will be 
ready for use earlier than 
the shaded ones. Its 
bloom is inconspicuous, 
but that of T. aquilegi- 
folium, a taller-growing species, especially its white 
fo rm, presents a fleecy plume that may be among 
the flowers to use. 1 he following are suitable: 
Spanish iris, Ins graminea, Anemone Pennsylvanica, 
columbines, Boltonias, Campanula Carpatica, lily-of- 
the-valley, Chinese Delphiniums, bleeding heart, 
Euphorbia corollata, Geunis, Gypsophilla paniculata, 
Lychnis Floscuculi, Rudbeckia lacimata, Trilliums, 
sweet peas, and many others. These are all hardy 
perennials excepting the last, but many forms may 
be found among the annuals. 
name of R. grandiflora, a name already applied 
to a more tender variety, which led to much con¬ 
fusion and disappointment. 
I mention this because I bought the true R. 
grandiflora under the belief that I was getting Al- 
taica, and found it winter-killed, the following spring. 
In time, in ordinary garden soil, it will form a bush 
five or more feet tall and as much in width, and 
seems exempt from insect pests and fungus diseases. 
In June—the month of roses—it comes as a bride, 
all decked in white, a pure paper white, centered 
with a disk of golden anthers. 
I hose who have been fortunate enough to see 
and admire that mysterious, but enticing rose of 
the South Atlantic States, the Cherokee, are struck 
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