16 



A LITTLE BOOK OF PERENNIALS 



A border cut through an orchard. Colors vie with each other and even detract 

 our attention from the building in the background. 



COLOR 



The color arrangement should be pleasing. Is this not a trite 

 statement ? And yet, what is pleasing to one is a jar to the tastes of 

 another. Rather love flowers and plant a riot of colors than fear to 

 infringe upon good taste by avoiding to plant. When your taste im- 

 proves you can transplant easily. 



Read what Wm. Saville says about colors. He was speaking before 

 the Florists' Club of Philadelphia: 



"It should be the aim in starting (as you enter the border from either 

 end)Xto have flowers of light coloring and foliage plants of gray-glaucous 

 or bluish leaf. As one passes to the center the color is allowed to become 

 stronger and stronger, untU in the center position we have one strong 

 color vying with another. There is a craze (which I have not seen success- 

 fully c£uried out) to have borders aU blue; or graduated from white to 

 pink; to golden; to bronze and up to crimson; but, in my opinion, a mixed 

 border is preferable." 



W. J. Potter, of the Parks Department, Toronto, in a paper read 

 before The Canadian Horticultural Association once said: 



"Color planting is more suitable for large gardens, where the eye rests 

 on the whole, or greater pau-t of the scheme. It also includes the choice 



