188 The Amateur's Booh of the Dahlia 



Planted in a mass of twenty or more in the cor- 

 ner of the shrubbery, he will turn a gray day into 

 bright sunshine. Plant at his feet a mass of 

 dwarf nastiu'timns, chosen for their yellows, and 

 you will have a never-ending joy. 



Plant dainty Melody (Stredwick) together 

 with Pierrot. Their graceful nodding heads on 

 tail slender stalks look well behind a cltunp of 

 common meadow rue. The rue will throw up 

 fresh stalks of golden-orange flakes every time 

 they are cut down, and their f emlike foliage quite 

 covers the groimd. 



Pale yellows tone well with the purples. A 

 bushy clematis, Davidiana, about four feet high 

 and covered with deep purple flowers in Septem- 

 ber, makes fine contrast to most of them, and if 

 between the edgings of alyssum or yellow violas 

 a few plants of deep heliotrope are set we can- 

 not ask for a more dignified combination. 



The yellows variegated with brown or red 

 or fawn can be planted almost anywhere to- 

 gether. They can have as associates rud- 

 beckia, sunflowers, sneezeweed. Blanket Flower, 

 blazing star, flame flower, annual poincettia, 

 African marigolds, and may be edged by French 

 marigolds and pot marigolds, even carefully 

 chosen portulaca. Tone the colour scheme 

 down, however, with judicious planting of green. 



