66 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



FIG. 1 



edged with blue ; Q, 

 Miss A. Callan, lav- 

 ender ; R, Mrs. T. W. 

 l\. Johnstone, black, 

 violet, and mauve. 

 The centre of the bed 

 was given up to pale 

 pink Geraniums, 

 which suit every col- 

 our of Violas except 

 that they rather kill 

 the effect of William 

 Neil, for which reason 

 a yellow flower, such 

 as Miniature Sun- 

 flowers or Marguerite 

 Feu d'Or, would have 

 been a better choice. 

 Of course, there is no 



need for each section of the border to show a different plant ; white 

 and scarlet, cream and blue, pink and carmine, orange and white, 

 mauve and pink alternately would be pretty, or the planting could 

 be done all round in white, yellow, and orange, repeated again and 

 again. 



A simple showy square bed is shown in Fig, 2, easy to peg out, 

 and requiring only a few plants 

 of a kind : A might be scarlet 

 Geranium ; B, salmon Geranium ; 

 c, white Candytuft or Begonias ; 

 i), yellow Calceolarias or Bego- 

 nias, with the edge E of scarlet 

 Tom Thumb Nasturtiums. If 

 the dotted lines showing the 

 pattern are planted with Chilian 

 Beet the effect of the shape will 

 be defined and its brilliance soft- 

 ened. A carpet bed could be made 

 thus : A, red Begonia ; B, salmon 

 Begonia ; c, Echeveria secunda 

 glauca ; D, Pyrethrum aureum ; 

 E, Cerastium tomentosum. 



FIG. 2 



