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doing equally well and being longer lived in our 

 cooler, moister climate, and yet how seldom are 

 they seen in masses in our gardens ? 



" Colour we may have and enjoy to the full. It 

 is the juxtaposition of incongruous colour from 

 which we pray deliverance. When, therefore, we 

 have to depend chiefly on bright-hued annuals, it 

 becomes a matter of serious consideration which to 

 choose, and contrasts must be arranged with the eye 

 of an artist. We cannot go far wrong in making 

 use in some association of such annual plants as 

 African marigold, nasturtium and coreopsis, which 

 give flowers of many shades of yellow, orange, and 

 brown. But annuals may sometimes be better used 

 as additions to more permanent plants. For tones of 

 crimson, shading off through pink to pure white, no 

 better flower can be found than the large-flowered 

 single Indian pinks. A good bed can be made into 

 a groundwork of the ordinary white or rosy double 

 pink which will give a mass of pure colour in June, 

 with strong plants of the Dianthus worked in 

 between. The latter will flower Avithout ceasing 

 until late autumn and contrast well with the grey 

 tufts of the double pinks. Another combination of 

 this sort may be made with the winter heath 

 {Erica cornea), arranged thinly enough to admit 



