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purple verbena, purple phlox, blue-piu*ple petunia, with here and 

 there a touch of pink verbena. Blue salvia (probably azurea) 

 and gold Celosia were among the unusual things growing near 

 standard heliotropes, while rising in the background, bushes of 

 Buddleia were covered with masses of fragrant flowers." This 

 is a nice picture, and such arrangements are not difficult to plan 

 with the gladiolus and perennials, though annuals seem more 

 important in the grouping described. Not enough celosias of 

 the newer types are grown in our garden; the pale colored ones, 

 like the pale cannas, should be more often seen. Unlike the 

 canna, the celosia's feathery look will soften any group of flowers; 

 such an effect may be gained with it in the border as is sometimes 

 nicely secured by the use of Tamarix hispida in a planting of 

 larger woody subjects. 



As an auspicious ending for this subject, let me quote here 

 some color combinations from an English writer who signs 

 himself, as well he may, "A Painter." 



"It is not often that one sees that wonderful shrub Berheris 

 Darwinii used in perfectly appropriate company. A beautiful 

 planting that I saw this year was a tall tree of the barberry 

 leaning up a face of gray rock; leading to this on either side of 

 the path was Narcissus Lucifer, backed by half -shadowed clumps 

 of the giant Crown Imperial. The orange crowns of the nar- 

 cissus took up the color of the barberry, and the pale yellow 

 perianths seemed more beautiful in that place than white ones 

 would have been. 



"Rosa Hugonis is curiously beautiful in the company of 

 Solomon's seal; Dielytra spectabilis and Iris flavescens are worth 

 adding to this group. Escallonia Langleyensis is splendid trailing 

 over a foreground or a wall-planting of the red valerian. I 

 should like to see this on a big scale. I notice, by the way, that 

 many who know this delightful shrub do not know the paler 



