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you not harmonize it by surrounding it with a white flowered 

 variety, since white is the peace-making color among flowers? 

 If not, it is easy to refine any near-magenta flowers sim- 

 ply by putting them in deep shade. But would the world come 

 to an end if these "dangerous colors" were omitted altogether? 

 What if a certain garden contained no cock'scomb, Joseph's 

 coat, spider flower, blue hydrangea, purple althea, Douglas 

 spiraea, Eva Rathke weigela, Anthony Waterer spiraea, or 

 kochia? Would it be forever ugly or are there enough other 

 flowers in the world? — From "The Prairie Spirit in Landscape 

 Gardening." 



