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), 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 



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