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effect as well as the individual display. 

 This, too, will take study and thought 

 and care. Your one rose geranium would 

 be lost among the grasses, and would 

 just smother the trailers, yet be perfectly 

 refreshing among the bright colours of taller 

 plants. Your one coleus or achyranthes, 

 so gorgeous in the sunlight, with a low set- 

 ting of green or white, would lose half its 

 own beauty among shady monkshood and 

 full-faced perennial phloxes, without helping 

 them one bit. Notice even the style of leaf 

 and growth, as well as the colour of the 

 flower, in your arrangement ; let the soft 

 feathery kinds have room to toss and wave 

 their tresses, and the sturdier ones shew all 

 the beauty of their strength in a tall back- 

 ground ; and skilfully scatter those plants 

 which bloom but once among those which 

 are always in blossom, so that there may be 

 no bare, flowerless places in your beds at 

 any time. 



I have been a good deal interested lately 

 in one of my seedling dahlias. Instead of 



