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colours (reds and yellows) in graduated harmonies, 

 culminating into gorgeousness, and the cool ones in 

 contrasts ; especially in the case of blue, which I like 

 to use either in distinct but not garish contrasts, as 

 of full blue with pale yellow, or in separate cloud-like 

 harmonies, as of lilac and pale purple with grey foliage. 

 I am never so much inclined to treat the blues, purples, 

 and lilacs in associated gradations as the reds and 

 jrellows. Purples and lilacs I can put together, but 

 not these with blues ; and the pure blues always seem 

 to demand peculiar and very careful treatment. 



The western end of the flower-border begins with 

 the low bank of Yuccas, then there are some rather 

 large masses of important grey and glaucous foliage 

 and pale and full pink flower. The foliage is mostly 

 of the Globe Artichoke, and nearer the front of Arte- 

 misia and Ginerm-ia maritima. Among this, pink 

 Canterbury Bell, Hollyhock, Phlox, Gladiolus, and 

 Japan Anemone, all in pinlt colourings, will foUow one 

 another in due succession. Then come some groups 

 of plants bearing whitish and very pale flowers. Poly- 

 gonum comfoctum, Aconitum lycoctonum, Double Meadow- 

 sweet, and other Spiraeas, and then the colour passes to 

 pale yellow of Mulleins, and with them the palest blue 

 Delphiniums. Towards the front is a wide planting 

 of Iris pallida dalmatica, its handsome bluish foliage 

 showing as outstanding and yet related masses with 

 regard to the first large group of pale foliage. Then 

 comes the pale-yellow Iris Jlavescens, and meanwhile 



