Colour Combinations for Garden and House 183 



and blendings of all — these are the autumn 

 tints. Then there are the clear pinks (very few), 

 soft pinks, and iridescent pinks, the pure glisten- 

 ing whites, those with a greenish tinge, or a 

 pinkish, or maybe a tint of yellow at the base of 

 the petals. Last are the lavenders and purples 

 which e^n only associate with white. Few 

 lavenders keep a pure colour in hot weather, and 

 when the weather turns cold they acquire a 

 pinkish tone. 



They all, however, make a beautiful picture 

 when grown with white dahlias or those of 

 palest corn colour. In the mixed border use the 

 gray-green foliage of sea lavender, stachys, white 

 mullein-pink, and double gypsophila whose gray 

 stems and dried flowers make a beautiful cloud. 

 Bocconia and meadow rue and white statice 

 may be set between the plants. Their roots run 

 downward and take no nourishment from their 

 neighbours. Snow-on-the-mo\mtain, white pe- 

 tunias, and white giant zinnias may be used as 

 fillers around and in front. St. Egwin aster or 

 white phlox, used with care, not to allow either 

 of them too much headway, makes a touch be- 

 tween the taller and the lower kinds; and be- 

 tween the edging of stachys, mullein-pink, etc., 

 tuck in a few plants of heliotrope or sweet 

 alyssum and Stokes' asters. It is possible, down 



