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Primrose and shrubby Spiraeas such as *S^. arimfolia, 

 8. Lindleyana ; and double Meadowsweet, and all pale 

 yellowish-green foliage, as that of Maize and Funhia. 

 If the room has walls of pale yellow or ivory-white, 

 the colour of the flowers would be reversed, and 

 one would use Delphiniums, pale and dark, avoiding 

 those of purplish colour ; Clematis jflammula, and bowls 

 of Forget-me-not. In a room with warm-white walls 

 any colour of flowers does well, so long as they 

 are kept to one range of colouring at a time. I 

 do not say that colours may not be mixed, but it 

 is best and easiest to begin with restriction in their 

 number. In a white or neutral-coloured room, if a 

 mixture is desired, the colours would be best in the 

 simple mixtures as proposed in the case of flower 

 and room colour, as blue and pale yellow flowers, or 

 blue and warm-white with pale green foliage. 



In a red room, other than a rosy red, scarlet and 

 yellow flowers have a fine effect — Gladiolus, Tritoma, 

 perennial Sunflowers, scarlet and yellow Dahlias ; these 

 are also fine in a white-walled room. My house has 

 the walls of all rooms plainly lime-whited, giving a 

 white of delicately warm colour, and though at first 

 I thought I should feel quite free to use all kinds of 

 coloured flower-schemes in it, yet I find that the different 

 rooms have their distinct preferences. For instance, 

 the sitting-room, whose window curtains are of madder- 

 dyed cloth, and whose other furniture is mostly covered 

 with stuff" of a dull orange colour, likes to have the 



