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larkspur and madonna lilies together on a border 
and callng the group a blue and white picture— 
much worse things than that happen in gardens 
every year. It is far better, however, first to reach 
the conclusion that a certain spot demands fairly 
tall plants, which well define themselves. These 
will, you feel, be more effective if there are two 
kinds, of not only unequal height but marked dif- 
ference in the shape of the blossoms and the way 
they are carried on the stems. 
Then let personal preference step in and go as 
far as it likes—consistently. If larkspur and ma- 
donna lilies are your choice, plant them. But re- 
member that blue and white are not the everything 
of color in your picture; the lily foliage is a delicate 
green, that of the larkspur darker. And you 
must have brought other colors into your back- 
ground—perhaps a sky that from dawn to sunset 
is everchanging. 
Whether a picture is the whole garden or a par- 
ticular grouping in it, or an isolated spot on the 
home grounds, matters very little; the main thing 
is to have as many pictures as the circumstances 
warrant. For this is not all of the growing of 
flowers; it is merely the supreme incident. 
A garden may be made a well composed picture 
at all times of the year, but that would mean either 
being a veritable slave to it to the end of life or 
expending an amount of money that most gardeners 
for pleasure could not afford. Even then there 
would very likely come intervals of imperfection 
