COLOR HARMONY 



rather bluish pink in groups below, with irregular 

 clumps of a pearly lavender a very light-gray- 

 ish lavender lent by Iris Germanica. A little 

 back of the irises, their tall stems being considered, 

 stand groups now of the fine Darwin tulip Clara 

 Butt, now of tulip Reverend H. Ewbank. The 

 slightly bluish cast of Clara Butt's pink binds 

 the dicentra and the lavender, lilac, and iris to 

 each other, and the whole effect is deepened and 

 almost focussed by the strong lavender of Rever- 

 end H. Ewbank tulip, in whose petals it is quite 

 easy to see a pinkish tone. The contrast in form 

 and habit of growth in such a border is worth 

 noticing. The lilacs topping everything with 

 their candlelike trusses of flowers; the dicentra, 

 the next tallest, horizontal lines against the lilacs' 

 perpendicular, as well as a foliage of extreme deli- 

 cacy, contrasting with the bold dark-green of the 

 lilac leaf; the tulips again, their conventional cups 

 of rich color clear-cut against the taller growth; 

 and grayish clouds of iris bloom, with their spears 

 of leaves below, these last broken here and there 

 by touches of a loose-flung, rather tall forget-me- 

 not, Myosotis dissitiflora all this creates an en- 

 semble truly satisfying from many points of view. 

 Speaking of tulips, why is not the May-flower- 



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