Colour Combinations for Garden and House 191 



cloud of clematis panniculata, there is nothing 

 more dainty and spring-like in September. It 

 may also be combined with some of the little 

 "Star" singles, set in a white bowl on a teak- 

 wood stand with a few sprays of clematis gone 

 to seed. 



Then there are the pale yellow pompons 

 Gannymede, tinted pink, or Little Beeswing. 

 Combine them with deep blue spires of veronica 

 in a vase of golden Ruskin pottery. Add the 

 foliage of rue if you have no maidenhair. 



The airy singles, always lovable and human, 

 look well in baskets of eighteenth-century design. 

 St. Egwin aster grouped with some of the clear 

 pinks makes a charming combination. 



Many people condemn the silver vase for any 

 flowers, but I still maintain that they are beau- 

 tiful with flowers that become them. Place 

 lavender Mme. Bijstein and white Queen 

 Wilhelmina, together with gray foliage from the 

 gray border, in a tall silver vase. Set them be- 

 fore a velvet curtain of deepest sapphire blue and 

 see if a silver vase is not beautiful. 



Once, when a dahlia show had used up all my 

 vases, and I had nothing else but a tall silver urn 

 to hold the dahlias for the drawing room, I stood 

 before it with an armful of J. Harrison Dick and 

 wondered if I dared. Into it they had to go. 



