116 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING 



scene that is well known to artists. In order to intensify the effect 

 of scarlet it should be surrounded by white flowers, and, under those 

 circumstances, will be visible across many acres. A bank summit 

 planted with scarlet Phloxes, white Phloxes, and white Stocks and 

 Violas for a foreground, will be marvellously showy. The Stocks 

 should be of the Ten Week species, one of the most intensely white 

 of all flowers. 



Vermilion scarlet Oriental Poppies can supply an earlier 

 summer display, when white bedding Pansies will be their best 

 accompaniment. White Achilleas bloom at the same time, so do 

 white Aquilegias, but neither of these is effective at a distance, 

 though very charming. White anditgreen foliage shrubs and trees 

 are admirable for a background to red ; Acer negundo variegatum, the 

 Japanese Maple, is especially excellent. Scarlet and yellow are often 

 accused of being too gaudy in combination, but in truth they tone 

 well one with the other, as will be seen if orange, which partakes of 

 the nature of each, is placed between them. A stretch of lemon 

 yellow, represented by Viola Ardwell Gem and lemon Iceland 

 Poppies, can be followed by the deeper gold Viola A. F. Eowberry 

 and gold Calceolarias ; then may come African Marigolds of 

 orange colouring, after which the vermilion of the Corn Poppy 

 will prove but a deeper shade. If gold is placed side by side with a 

 scarlet Phlox, without any intermediate shade, however, the result is. 

 crude. 



The difference between vermilion and scarlet is not 

 sufficiently recognised : the Oriental Poppy is the best example of 

 the former, the scarlet perennial Phlox of the latter ; the first has a 

 great deal of yellow in its tint, while the second inclines towards a 

 crimson. There are both colours obtainable in Tulips, the Van Thol 

 red being vermilion, that of Vesuvius scarlet ; it is also seen in 

 Geraniums and many other flowers. These hues should never be 

 mixed. Scarlet becomes a crimson when its shade is deepened, but 

 it is a brown crimson, a rich sort of terra-cotta that is not often seen 

 in blossoms, not the usual carmine crimson : Nasturtiums offer just 

 this shade, however. It is possible to lead from scarlet to carmine 

 crimson in a border, but only by extreme care. I should plant a 

 quantity of a brown flower, such as the brown Calceolaria, backed 

 by young Copper Beeches, then introduce the carmine crimson of 

 the Phlox. By the by, there are m-iny early Chrysanthemums of a 

 delightful shade of brown crimson or deep terra-cotta, and the single 

 maroon Hollyhock will also tone. 



