CHOICE OF FLOWERS 



Higher In the color scale than the zinnias are 

 the nasturtiums, and In the make-up of a house 

 garden we must not overlook these, Its eminently 

 cheerful citizens. They want the sunshine, and 

 they soak It up and give It back In generous meas- 

 ure. Their color Is really warm; It smacks of 

 mustard; It lightens their very stems and leaves; 

 they are even hot to taste, and they pickle the 

 seed pods In the country, for a condiment. Yet, 

 be It noticed that they do not assail the eye as 

 a scarlet geranium will do, for the eye can not 

 penetrate the petal of a geranium : It Is as opaque 

 as china, while the nasturtium Is as translucent 

 as colored glass. Moreover, the green of the 

 nasturtium leaf Is as high keyed as are the orange 

 and yellow of the flower, so that there Is a har- 

 mony of color well up In the treble. Even the 

 soft and satisfying pinks and crimsons of this 

 plant have an undertone of yellow. Theoret- 

 ically you could arrange a disk or circle with a 

 gradation from central warmth to marginal cool- 

 ness, by putting nasturtiums In the middle, sur- 

 rounding these with salvia, geranium, ruddy 

 marigolds and popples, these In turn with phlox, 

 red popples and the like ; next a circle of deeper 

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