74 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



but is a really lovely, tall, thin-stemmed, myriad-blossomed plant, 

 Flesh colour Perfection Stock, Sweet William Pink Beauty will alsc 

 be found satisfactory. 



Deep purple-blue beds have a most uncommon appearance, and 

 can be made with the exquisite Torenia Fournieri Princess Helene, 

 bedded out beneath deep blue Salpiglossis on a carpet of indigc 

 Lobelia ; the Violas Max Kolb, Edina, and Archie Grant supply the 

 shade, as also will Salvia pratensis Tenori, the climbing Convolvulus 

 major, deep blue, and Browallia speciosa major, in such warm places 

 as are tit for it. The colour is seen to perfection, of course, in many 

 Delphiniums, lloyal blue always pleases when massed in a bed. 



Pretty Beds of Foliage 



Many of our best foliage plants blossom, of course, but their flowers 

 are not large enough to be as showy as their leaves. Among a series 

 of gay flower beds one bed of all foliage makes a charming and 

 restful variation, or, if the garden owner especially appreciates 

 subdued effects and harmonies, the foliage beds may be to the 

 flower beds in the proportion of two to one. There is much forget- 

 fulness of the plants that have noteworthy leaves, however, so the 

 following list is offered. 



Name 



Description 



Ambrosia 



mexicaua 

 Amaranthu* 



Abutilon 

 A rail as 



Indian Hemp 

 Castor Oil Plant 



Snow in Summer 

 Fishbone Thistle 



Fan Palm 

 Centaurea 



candidissima 

 Coleus 



Sage coloured, compact in growth, 1 ft. tall, aromatically 



perfumed hardy annual 

 Melancholicus ruber, crimson, 1 ft. ; Princess of Wales, 



red, 3 ft. ; salicifolius, narrowest leaves of crimson and 



gold, 3 ft. ; tricolor, scarlet, gold and crimson, 2 ft. 

 Abutilon Thompsonianum is the fine variegated foliage 



variety, very cheerful in appearance, 5 ft. 

 Several sorts, but the best is the palm-leaved Aralia Sieboldi, 



3 ft. plants, bed out well 

 Canuabis indica, G ft. , very handsome 

 liicinus zanzibarensis, ft., immense foliage ; R. sanguineus, 



red in leaf and stem, 6 ft. 

 Cerastium tomentosum, 6 in. ; C. Biebersteini, 7 in., 



silver perennial foliage 

 Chamaepeuce, half-hardy biennial, with beautiful green 



foliage, 3 ft. ; C. diacantha, leaves marked with white, 



and curiously spined, 2^ ft. 

 Charaaerops humilis, the best outdoor palm 

 Silver leaves, 2 ft. , perennial 



Great variety of combinations of red, crimson 



