Art Out-of-Doors 



lobelias, candy-tufts, and lantanas, with cen- 

 taurea, coreopsis, and gaura lindheimeri. 

 These last, which formed the real filling of 

 the bed, were not heterogeneously mingled 

 as isolated specimens, and yet they were not 

 stiffly massed. A little clmnp of each had 

 been carefully placed with due regard to the 

 habit and color of its neighbors, and then 

 the whole bed had been allowed to grow in 

 free luxuriance. Particularly pretty effects 

 were produced by the mingling of geraniums 

 with red and with white flowers, by the con- 

 trast of the red ones with small clusters of 

 white centaurea, and again by the way in 

 which heliotropes and yellow-flowered lan- 

 tanas had interlocked and intertwined their 

 sprays. The bright blue blossoms of the 

 lobelias had been set where they did not 

 offend the eye by contact with inharmoni- 

 ous hues ; and excellent use had been made 

 of all the white flowers to separate and relieve 

 the brilliant colors. In certain other French 

 towns the grass-plots in gardens of this sort 

 sometimes have a central bed of flowers or 

 foliage - plants, while shrubs are set near 

 their corners ; but I noticed no such in- 



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