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throughout the border such colours as cannot fail to 

 make a pleasing combination. I will give a few ideas 

 I have tried with great success. Thalictrum minus, 

 T. appendiculatum, and, indeed, other varieties of this 

 useful plant, are of the palest yellow, light and 

 feathery in appearance, and flower at the same time 

 as the Delphiniums Belladonna, Persimmon, and other 

 pale blues. Take this as a keynote for a group, and 

 you will get an effect that will please everyone who sees 

 it. In a very long border repeat this at intervals 

 throughout its length, and vary it sometimes with, say, 

 a touch of orange in the form of Lilium croceum. Now 

 you have the skeleton of the border formed (and it is 

 very easy to find sufficient pale blues and yellows) ; 

 consider next what colours will be best in association 

 with these groups. Pink at once suggests itself, and 

 may be combined with several shades. Pink and 

 white is delicate and beautiful. Pink and pale (very 

 pale) yellow are delicious, but the acme of elegance is 

 achieved in an arrangement of pink and lavender, with 

 grey foliage interspersed. Now you can join up to 

 your pink and lavender combinations with some deep 

 purple and white, then introduce some orange and 

 gold, then deep blue and cream, or white, and finally 

 mass your scarlets and crimsons with plenty of green 

 interspersed. These effects can be repeated ad lib., 

 but it is a very long border indeed that requires the 

 duplication more than once or twice. A word of 

 advice to those who adopt this idea, or indeed, any 

 other colour scheme arrangement. Don't attempt it 

 without a liberal choice of material. Don't attempt 

 it without the utmost care and consideration being 

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