COLOR HARMONIES 



ing thing whose name is Lamium maculatum (the 

 gray-green leaves have a rather vague whitish 

 marking upon them, and the flowers are of a 

 soft mauve — grow tuHp Wouverman back of 

 these, I beg !) — the most dehghtful effects may 

 be had. 



As for tulips, again, the loveliest of combina- 

 tions under lilacs, or immediately before them, 

 would surely ensue if groups of tulips Fanny, Carl 

 Becker, Giant, and Konigin Emma were planted 

 in such spots. And speaking of tulips — the ones 

 just mentioned I got of the Dutch, the originators 

 of the Darwin and Rembrandt tulips and who 

 thereby have made all bulb-growers their eternal 

 debtors. 



Mr. Krelage gave last autumn to one of his 

 English friends a list of the Darwin tulips he 

 considers the best. These are the ones: Clara 

 Butt, salmon-pink; Crepuscule, pinky lilac; Faust, 

 deep violet; Giant, deep purplish-crimson; La 

 Candeur, ivory-white; La Tristesse, slaty blue; 

 Madame Krelage, rosy pink; Margaret, soft pink, 

 almost blush; Mr. Farncombe Sanders, rosy 

 crimson; Prince of the Netherlands, cerise-car- 

 mine; Raphael, purplish violet; and Haarlem, a 

 giant salmony orange-red. Five of these I have 

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