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blue of iris, delpMniums, monkshood, forget-me-nots, 

 anchusas, blue pansies, bachelor buttons, browallias, 

 lobelias and the like, and the fall garden may be 

 gorgeous with the yellow and white of chrysanthe- 

 mums, dahlias and golden glow. 



It will be found immensely interesting to take the 

 catalogues and make a list of all the flowers of a 

 certain color, together with their time of blooming. 

 It will be found, for instance, that there are a great 

 many more blue flowers than one supposed, and the 

 same is true of the other colors, so that if one has 

 a preference for certain colors he will be surprised to 

 find how liberally the florists are catering to that 

 preference. 



A garden which has several divisions or is cut up 

 by shrubbery, arbors or hedges offers admirable op- 

 portunity for color work, as the separate parts can 

 be devoted to separate color schemes rather than to 

 separate flowers. This would add immensely to the 

 interest of a garden and is worthy of serious consid- 

 eration in planning a new garden. 



There is another arrangement of a color scheme 

 which might appeal to some, and that is the shading 

 of beds and borders of plants. This requires a thor- 

 ough knowledge of the shades of color of the flowers 

 employed or the aid of an experienced florist, but 

 very pretty effects can doubtless be obtained by the 

 use of flowers of a given color shaded from the palest 



