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plans for these they would have been masses of cool 
grey foliage with lavender, pale blue, the palest of 
yellow, cream, and pink flowers, with perhaps a little- 
dark purple used as a foil. They would have been 
planted principally with hardy perennial plants, with 
spaces left for spring bulbs, to be succeeded by annuals. 
An example of what plants Miss Leonard would have 
used for this purpose would have been full of interest, 
especially as she would be considering the matter from 
the American point of view. 
One planting plan by Miss I. Grant Brown (repro- 
duced on page 41) is in many ways excellent. She 
shows a full appreciation of the fact that it is better to 
group plants in relation to each other than to use them 
in serried lines or rigid blocks. Her colour arrange- 
ment is generally well thought out. Undoubtedly in 
the actual planting of these borders some provision 
would be made for prolonging the flowering period by 
introducing a few spring flowering bulbs and summer 
and autumn flowering annuals. The edging of 
Veronica prostrata is very neat when not in flower and 
brilliant when the flowering period arrives ; an added 
interest would, however, follow a little more varied 
edging. There are innumerable dwarf plants that can 
be used for this purpose that have a longer flowering 
period. 
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