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 tulip Wouverman back of 

 these, I beg !) the most delightful 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. The photograph of tulips which accom- 

 panies these notes shows how exhibition beds may 

 be made beautiful it is a picture of the Haarlem 

 (Holland) Jubilee Show in the spring of 1910. 



In the illustration, page 86, the blackish group 

 of tulips in the right-hand middle distance is La 

 Tulipe Noire "the blackest of all the tulips." 

 The circular group in the centre distance is Ed- 

 mee, a bright cherry-rose color, also Darwin; and 

 at the extreme left L'Ingenue, a fine white Dar- 

 win, slightly suffused with pale rose. 



Mr. Krelage gave last autumn to one of his 



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