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good, — orange yellow with pale blue, greenish yellow with deep 

 rose, deep red with deep blue, and orantre with violet; white suitinsj 

 all these combinations more or less. On the contrary, we should 

 always separate rose from scarlet or orani^e, orange from orange 

 yellow, yellow from yellow green, blue from violet blue; and even 

 red from orange, rose from violet, and blue from violet. Applying 

 these conclusions to the dahlia, which is now about to be planted 

 out, the following arrangement of colors is reconnnended. In lines, 

 the following succession, viz., white, reddish scarlet, white, rose li- 

 lac, yellow, violet or purple, orange, white, reddish scarlet, purple 

 tinged with green, rose lilac, yellow, violet or ])urple, orange, white, 

 red scarlet, deep purple, rose lilac, white, yellow, violet or purple, 

 orange, white, &c. 



To produce the best effect \n patches of seven arranged together 

 thus, — Q Q we may have 



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1, six orange, with a purple or violet centre; 2, six purple or vio- 

 let, with a yellow centre; 3, six yellow, with a purple or violet cen- 

 tre; 4, six scarlets, with a white centre; 5, six white, with a scarlet 

 centre; 6, six rose, with a white centre; 7, six blackish green pur- 

 ple, with an orange centre. These seven patches forming a straight 

 border, may be then repeated in an inverted order, which would 

 give thirteen patches, and there should be a jjatch of seven whites 

 at each end. If the border is circular, without any central point of 

 view, the foregoing arrangement should be repeated ad infinitum, 

 without inverting the order after the seventh patch. 



Another advantageous disposition would be the following; — 



White. rink. White. Onince. Violet. Yellow. 







Pink. Yellow. White. Orange. Violet. White. Yellow. Wliitp. Violet. 



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White. Rose. White. Orange. Violet. Yellow. 







Scarlet. White. Bl. pnrple. White. 







White, Yellow. Scarlet. White. Pink. Bl. piirp. 



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Scarlet. White. Bi. purple. White. 







In this arrangement, violet may be substituted for purple. There 

 are points that richly deserve the consideration of those who are 

 now about to plant out beds of verbenas, pelargoniums, and other 

 tender annuals, for they will lie found to affect essentially the dis- 

 play of agreeable colors. It may be difficult to apply them at first, 

 but the attem[)t should be made at once, and such notes prepared 

 during the flowering season, as will enable the principles to be car- 

 ried out another year. In dressing and adjusting the stands of flow- 

 ers in a florists' exhibition, the harmonious contrast of color can 

 always be kept in view, and the imi)ortance of attending to the ef- 

 fect of complimentary colors observed advantageously. The ground 

 color of such stands should be most especially consulted; and it 



