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looking out for their own particular society. You are not to mix Dra- 

 caenas with Pelargoniums, or Ferns with high Calceolarias, Ageratum, Petu- 

 nias, Matricarias, etc.; these combinations would be against the habit of such 

 plants. But you may combine well Ferns and Grasses with plants, having beauti- 

 ful lucent leaves like Caladias, Linas, etc. ; every Fern possesses the quality for 

 softening the greatest contrast. Of piants with variegated and silver leaves, chooso 



only such, which go well with other plants, and arrange like this: Centaurea 

 gymnoca-pa, candidissima and C. plumosa, Ciuneraria maritima and Artemissia 

 argentea, as a single plant; or in the centre of a group, surrounded by low 

 plants, in rich flowering state, as: Rosa Lawrenciana, Lobelia ramosa and 

 erinoides, Iberis sempervivens, Dianthus Chinensis and imperialis flore pleno, 



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