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Planted in a mass of twenty or more in the cor- 

 ner of the shrubbery, he will turn a gray day into 

 bright sunshine. Plant at his feet a mass of 

 dwarf nasturtiums, chosen for their yellows, and 

 you will have a never-ending joy. 



Plant dainty Melody (Stredwick) together 

 with Pierrot. Their graceful nodding heads on 

 tall slender stalks look well behind a clump of 

 common meadow rue. The rue will throw up 

 fresh stalks of golden-orange flakes every time 

 they are cut down, and their f ernlike foliage quite 

 covers the ground. 



Pale yellows tone well with the purples. A 

 bushy clematis, Davidiana, about four feet high 

 and covered with deep purple flowers in Septem- 

 ber, makes fine contrast to most of them, and if 

 between the edgings of alyssum or yellow violas 

 a few plants of deep heliotrope are set we can- 

 not ask for a more dignified combination. 



The yellows variegated with brown or red 

 or fawn can be planted almost anywhere to- 

 gether. They can have as associates rud- 

 beckia, sunflowers, sneezeweed, Blanket Flower, 

 blazing star, flame flower, annual poincettia, 

 African marigolds, and may be edged by French 

 marigolds - and pot marigolds, even carefully 

 chosen portulaca. Tone the colour scheme 

 down, however, with judicious planting of green. 



