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feverfew and white lupines. Add pale pinks 

 and gray about their feet, mixed with alyssum. 

 There are white mignon or Tom Thumb dahlias 

 which add cheer at the feet of the tall ones. Pink 

 mignons are inclined to have a purplish tinge in 

 most soils, but the white ones add greatly to 

 either the pink or the lavender beds. 



When the pinks are to be combined only with 

 other dahlias use Hortulanus Fiet, Crystal, or 

 Niebelungenhort combined with the whites of 

 Madonna behind and Snowdrift (Broomall) in 

 front. These pinks are of medium height, while 

 Madonna stands tall and stately and Snowdrift 

 is of stocky growth. Between them place 

 Caecelia or Melody or J. Harrison Dick, all of the 

 palest yellow, loose-petalled, graceful, and free. 



Nearly aU good pink dahlias, in order to shut 

 out the lavender tone, have a bit of yellow in 

 their blood. This accounts for the sympathy 

 they seem to have for any yellow which does not 

 kill them outright. 



Reds are the hardest to manage — so difficult 

 are they, that some with a sensitive eye will have 

 none of them in the garden. The autumn bor- 

 der, however, having vivid red blended with 

 orange and bronze, softened by golden yellows, 

 is exhilarating to behold, yet restful to the eye. 

 Here, also, one has almost unlimited choice, and 



