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so on throughout. There are ways of filling gaps by training 

 plants down to fill the spaces. For this use Everlasting Peas, 

 tall perennial Sunflowers, and Rudbeckias and Dahlias are 

 especially accommodating. 



Nothing is so destructive of good effect in the mixed 

 border as the old unthinking mixed up way. Plants of the 

 same kind, instead of being dotted at equal intervals, should 

 be grouped together, each group dying away into one 

 neighbouring group, or if there is only one plant of a kind 

 there is no harm in its being one alone if only it is in its 

 right place. 



Of course there are other ways of arranging the details of 

 a mixed border, and many devices that may be used to 

 enhance its effect at the different seasons, but these sugges- 

 tions will be a good basis of operation to any one who is 

 without experience and desires general instruction. 



