COLOR HARMONY 



the varying tones of such a color, and with the 

 hberal or sparing use of white flowers. It is, I 

 think, a daughter of Du Maurier whose English 

 garden is one lovely riot, the summer through, of 

 mauve, purple, cool pink, and white. I can fancy 

 nothing more lovely if it receive the artist's touch. 

 A garden of rich purples, brilliant blues and their 

 paler shades, with cream and white, could be a 

 masterpiece in the right hand. 



Such was, a summer or two since, the garden at 

 Ashridge, Lord Brownlow's fine place in England, 

 the following brief description of which was sent 

 me by the hand that planted it: "Purple and 

 blue beds at Ashridge (very difficult to get enough 

 blue when tall blue delphiniums are over). Blue 

 delphinium, blue salvia (August and September), 

 purple clematis, single petunia, violas, purple 

 sweet peas, salpiglossis, stocks, blue nemesia, blue 

 branching annual delphinium, purple perennial 

 phloxes, purple gladiolus." 



The past mistress of the charming art of color 

 combination in gardening is, without doubt. Miss 

 Jekyll, the well-known English writer; and to 

 the practised amateur, I commend her "Colour 

 in the Flower Garden" as the last word in truly 

 artistic planting, and full of valuable suggestion 

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