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Dahlias, can be used with either group. One 

 of my most favourite combinations for large 

 vases, is a mixture of the tall white Michaelmas 

 Daisy Decima and the rosy-scarlet Larkspur. 

 They seem made to go together in a big straw- 

 opal glass jar of Powell's. Another I much 

 affect for the dinner-table is simple enough : 

 white Paris Daisies, the useful pink Ivy-leaf 

 Madame Crousse, and generous sprigs of Sweet- 

 leaf Geranium. 



Last Autumn one of the most effective of 

 many fine colour schemes made by an artist in 

 words as well as other things, was a daring 

 combination of warm pink and scarlet ; and it 

 caused such surprise and delight to a visitor, 

 that when her hostess appeared she could only 

 say : " I never imagined they could go to- 

 gether." It was a mass of the rosy-scarlet 

 Larkspur, pierced through and through with 

 fiery swords of Gladiolus Brenchleyensis. No 

 wonder that the visitor, with a nice sense of 

 art, was found almost speechless before it. 

 The late Michaelmas Daisies, grey, purple, 

 crimson, and pink, if boldly mixed together 



