COLOR HARMONY 



Italy, go to Tivoli, and then you will see what I 

 mean by the beauty of a garden without flowers: 

 yews, cypresses, statues, steps, fountains — sombre, 

 dignified, restful." 



But when planting is right, when great groups 

 of, say, white hydrangea, when tall rows of holly- 

 hocks of harmonious color, when delicate gar- 

 lands of such a marvellous rambler as Tausend- 

 schon, low flat plantings of some fine verbena like 

 Beauty of Oxford or the purple Dolores — when 

 such fine materials are used to produce an effect 

 of balanced beauty, to heighten the loveliness of 

 proportion and of line already lying before one 

 in stone or brick, in turf or gravel, in well-devised 

 trelhs or beautifully groomed hedge, what an emi- 

 nence of beauty may then be reached! 



The form and color of flowers, in my opinion, 

 should be considered as seriously for the formal 

 garden as the soil about their roots. 



Effects with tall flowers, lilies, delphiniums; with 

 dwarf flowers, hardy candytuft, for instance; with 

 lacelike flowers, the heucheras, the gypsophilas; 

 with round-trussed flowers, phloxes; with massive- 

 leaved flowers, the funkias or Crambe cordifolia ; 

 with slender flowers, gladiolus, salpiglossis; with 

 low spreading flowers, statice, annual phloxes; 



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