COLOR HARMONIES 



ing thing whose name is Lamium maculatum (the 

 gray-green leaves have a rather vague whitish 

 marking upon them, and the flowers are of a 

 soft mauve — grow tuhp Wouverman back of 

 these, I beg !) — the most dehghtful effects may- 

 be had. 



As for tuhps, again, the lovehest of combina- 

 tions under hlacs, or immediately before them, 

 would surely ensue if groups of tulips Fanny, Carl 

 Becker, Giant, and Konigin Emma were planted 

 in such spots. And speaking of tulips — the ones 

 just mentioned I got of the Dutch, the originators 

 of the Darwin and Rembrandt tulips and who 

 thereby have made all bulb-growers their eternal 

 debtors. The photograph of tulips which accom- 

 panies these notes shows how exhibition beds may 

 be made beautiful — it is a picture of the Haarlem 

 (Holland) Jubilee Show in the spring of 1910. 



In the illustration, page 86, the blackish group 

 of tulips in the right-hand middle distance is La 

 Tulipe Noire — r "the blackest of all the tulips." 

 The circular group in the centre distance is Ed- 

 mee, a bright cherry -rose color, also Darwin; and 

 at the extreme left L'Ingenue, a fine white Dar- 

 win, slightly suffused with pale rose. 



Mr. Krelage gave last autumn to one oi his 



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