274 The Color Scheme 



out in full if light-leaved foliage is massed around 

 the doorway and the colors most prominent are 

 soft pink, white, and green, or blue, pink, white, 

 and green, or some other delicate combination. A 

 large house with a dark, heavy exterior needs 

 gay, bright, even giddy colors to strike a balance 

 and create a cheerful atmosphere. A house gray 

 in color makes a good background for geraniums 

 on the cerise shade growing in the window boxes, 

 with English ivy tendrils hanging gracefully down, 

 and a mixture of white, delft blue, and cerise 

 somewhere in the yard. Unharmonious colors 

 should not be grouped together in the garden any 

 more than they should be combined indoors in 

 wall paper and draperies. The secret of a beau- 

 tiful garden lies just as much in the grouping 

 together of colors as in the care given the plants. 

 When there is not enough space to separate shades 

 which do not harmonize, an abundance of green 

 planted between them will prevent a clash of 

 colors, and if the effect of the general landscape 

 plan will not be marred, the foliage plants should 

 be tall enough to entirely shut off the view of one 

 color when looking at the other. 



The midsummer color scheme is easily planned 

 as this period produces a wonderful variety of 

 flowers of all shades and sizes, but the plan for 



