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be guarded against. I have seen gardens 

 spoiled by unfortunate color combinations. 

 It is just as easy to prevent this as it is to 

 avoid the mistake of putting plants of different 

 sizes where they do not belong. Study up on 

 the color question, and so arrange your colors 

 that there will be harmony instead of discord. 

 In order to do this most effectively, I would 

 advise you to make a diagram of your garden 

 before you begin work in it, and mark down in 

 each bed the name and color of the plant it is 

 to be filled with. This will greatly simplify 

 matters, you will find, when the hurry of gar- 

 den work is here, and it will do away with the 

 mistakes you will quite likely make if you go 

 to work without some definite plan to work to. 

 I am not a great admirer of "carpet- 

 bedding," but I am fond of arranging my 

 plants so that color contrast is secured. It is an 

 easy matter to make a most attractive circular 

 bed by planting white, rose, and pale-yellow 

 Phlox in rows. These colors harmonize charm- 

 ingly, and the contrast between them heightens 

 the beauty of each. The pleasing effect of such 

 a bed is increased if we use as a border the 

 Madame Salleroi Geranium, with its pale- 

 green and creamy-white foliage. This har- 



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