Colour Combinations for Garden and House 187 



der will make a suitable foreground planting. 

 There are some tones of old rose, such as Emily 

 D. Renwick and George Walters, which have a 

 golden sheen. These may be planted with soft 

 yellow, choosing only the forms which look well 

 with one another. 



Cerise red and cerise pink look best with white. 

 They are so vivid that unless treated carefully 

 they make too sharp a note in the landscape. 



Next rarest to the pinks are the pure golden- 

 yellow dahlias — the yellow of an old-fashioned 

 Persian rose. There are lemon yellows, sulphur 

 yellows, and many shades of orange which, 

 strangely enough, will not agree in the garden. 

 Choose your yellows carefully, and never trust a 

 catalogue description. Plant them with deeper 

 shades or variegated, where they will be hap- 

 piest. Yellow Hammer, though a shy bloomer, 

 a true cactus dahlia, is the best in colour, though 

 singularly enough, an unsympathetic flower is 

 grown alone. Sulphur yellows, such as Mrs. 

 Richard Lohrman, massive in form, and always 

 covered with bloom, cannot associate with any- 

 thing but white or deep purple. It is those that 

 are softened with a glow of pink which will blend 

 with bronze or fawn or even red. Take, for 

 example, that variable Dutchman, King of the 

 Autunm. He agrees with nearly every dahlia. 



