THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



run an orchid house; he added the remark 

 that, after trying new plants every year, he 

 had found that the hst of really desirable per- 

 ennials and annuals did not greatly increase. 



In making an herbaceous border where 

 many different-colored plants are to be 

 grown, the effect will be more beautiful if 

 white flowers in quantity are planted between 

 each of the different colors, care being taken 

 to allow a few plants of the palest shade of 

 each color to drift among the white, so that 

 the transition may be less abrupt. If a plan 

 of the planting be made in advance, the work 

 will be easier and more successful. Hetero- 

 geneous planting is often painful. Pink and 

 blue flowers, red, purple, and yellow, must be 

 arranged to produce artistic effect. 



Larkspurs, for instance, are far more beau- 

 tiful when grown in great masses of each dif- 

 ferent shade, or with white Japanese iris and 

 Lilium candidum, than in smaller clumps in 

 a border where many other colored flowers 

 are planted. Pale blue larkspur with the 



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