COLOR HARMONY 



pink, is better; it is the color of Coquelicot, but 

 lacking the extra touch of yellow which makes 

 the latter too scarlet a phlox for my garden. To 

 the left of the sea-holly is Achillea ptarmica, and 

 far beyond the tall pink phlox Aurore Boreale. In 

 the lower cut phlox E. DanzanVilliers raises its 

 lavender heads above another mass of sea-holly, 

 a few spikes of the white phlox Fraulein G. von 

 Lassberg appear to the left, and Chrysanthemum 

 maximum provides a brilliant contrast in form 

 and tone to its background of the beautiful eryn- 

 gium. 



A use of verbena which does not appear in 

 these illustrations, but which is frequently made 

 with these groupings, is as follows: Below phlox 

 Pantheon, or the Shasta daisy (or Chrysanthemum 

 maximum) y whichever chances to be toward the 

 front of the planting, clumps of that clear warm 

 pink verbena Beauty of Oxford complete a color 

 scheme in perfect fashion. The pink of the ver- 

 bena is precisely that of the Pantheon phlox, and 

 the plants are allowed to grow free of pins. 



Like the geranium, the verbena is a garden 

 standby — and, unlike the geranium, it sows itself. 

 The first indulgence in verbenas by the quarter 

 or half hundred is apt to be a trifle costly; but 



