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yellow hollyhocks at the back; have one or two plants of hardy 

 Gypsophila on hand for the middle of the border, four or five feet 

 apart; use all the pale yellow, cream- white and pale lavender 

 flowers to be procured for the further filling of this space. Sea- 

 lavender, when well established, is a delightful neighbor in color 

 and form for the scarlet geranium; so, too, are pale yellow annual 

 chrysanthemums, pale yellow monkshood {Aconitum lycocto- 

 num); the white Campanula persicifolia; and some gray-leaved 

 things to accompany Heuchera sanguinea (Mexican coral bells) 

 at the very front of the border, the gray leaves to be Nepeta 

 Mussini, Stachys lanata, and the hardy pinks (only white- 

 flowering ones). With all these one would get delightful con- 

 trasts of color and form. 



But why do I dwell so long on the scarlet geranium only? 

 Those I should suggest are the beautiful whites, such as Madame 

 Recamier; the lovely salmon pinks, Beaute Poitevine and Mrs. 

 E. G. Hill; the new rich crimson, Mrs. Richard F. Gloede, now 

 so happily settled in our own garden with the clustering Agera- 

 tum fraseri below it — as nice an arrangement of annual or 

 tender flowers as one could see anywhere. 



The various scented-leaf geraniums are not nearly common 

 enough in om* gardens. Seventeen varieties are listed by one 

 grower. The rose-geranium is, of coiuse, the most familiar. 

 While the flowers of these are not important, their forms and 

 fragrance are. Also, by growing several plants of the same genus 

 or species we become — in a small way — collectors, and at 

 once grow in knowledge, systematically and pleasantly. 



We have now left far behind the subject of flowers violet and 

 lavender in color, yet memory turns here to a discussion of their 

 use by Mr. W. Arnold-Forster, whose writing is always a de- 

 light to the gardener with an eye for effects that not only satisfy, 

 but kindle. "If you associate," says Mr. Arnold-Forster, 



