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GARDEN PLANNING 



Fig, 130 — Ar- 

 rangement of her- 

 baceous border 



with the yellowish-green foliage of. 

 the pyrethrunijWould entirely satis- 

 fy my sense of a good colour effect. 



When it comes to planting a long 

 herbaceous border, the same prin- 

 ciples apply. Indiscriminate mix- 

 ture of colours, as already seen, is 

 the least effective mode of plant- 

 ing, and formal parallel rows are 

 almost equally ineffective. The 

 best way is to use large masses of 

 each colour, and with them to 

 construct a consecutive harmony, 

 which we may regard as a kind of 

 floral spectrum in which colour 

 succeeds colour, each harmoniously 

 related to its neighbour on either 

 side. These colour masses should 

 not be in simple compartments di- 

 vided by transverse lines, but of 

 irregular shape, as shown in the 

 illustration. 



The sequence of colours may be 

 varied within limits, always pro- 

 vided the rules of harmony be ob- 

 served. Here are two typical series : 



