HELPFUL HINTS ON COLOUR 117 



Scarlet and pale blue are so pretty together that it is sur- 

 prising they are not more used during summer. In spring we often 

 see red Tulips carpeted by Myosotis, but Geraniums and azure-blue 

 Violas would prove as successful. Vermilion of the orange shade is 

 lovely with indigo blue, a colour that is given first by some Hyacinths 

 and then by some Delphiniums. Both types of scarlet are admissible 

 with royal blue, especially when the white is introduced that softens 

 the display of these in the national flag. Other colours to use with 

 scarlet are lavender, either deep or in its paler form of lilac, salmon 

 pink, which is, in artist's phraseology, merely scarlet thinned out as 

 a pale wash, or mixed with white pigment and cream. Perhaps the 

 last is most meritorious of all, and black shows off the combination. 

 A bed of scarlet Geraniums, cream Violas, and black bedding Pansies, 

 or a border effect of scarlet Lychnis, cream Violas and Tiarella cordi- 

 folia, with black Pansies, can be strongly recommended. 



Violet and Purple in Borders. Take a tube of ultramarine 

 paint, mix some with some crimson lake, and all the shades of 

 violet and purple, except the very deepest, can be gained, according 

 as either the blue or the crimson predominates. To secure the 

 darkest shades either indigo or black must be incorporated. Mix 

 the blue and the crimson mixture with white, and all the shades 

 of rnauve and lavender are visible. It is most useful for a gardener 

 to have some knowledge of pigments and experiment with them. 



Blue purple and red purple must never be placed together, 

 though it is quite possible to lead from one to the other in a border 

 by massing carmine between them. Similarly lavender, which is 

 the paler shade of blue purple, commonly called violet, and mauve, 

 which is the paler shade of red purple, must never be combined, though 

 they can be used close together if rose pink intervenes. Lavender is 

 the tint of the Lavender blossom ; mauve is that of the Parma 

 Violet, the mauve or peach Chrysanthemum, and Ten Week Stock. 



Violet and gold are always charming together, even orange 

 may be well used, and cream or blush, pale pink, or pale rose are all 

 good companions. Violet is extra well shown up by silver or 

 variegated foliage, for which reason variegated Arabis, silver Cerastium 

 or Pinks are suitable carpets for Campanula glomerata and the 

 ordinary German Iris. Violet can never be harmoniously used with 

 blue, although it contains blue in its composition. 



Purple and pale blue are remarkably charming, however, for 

 which reason purple Tulips are so often given a groundwork of 

 Myosotis : the blue must be of this light azure shade, never of the 



