Informal Planting 
but to let the plants accompany good groups of 
taller things as a kind of free carpeting ; the 
dwarf plant not only coming to the front, but 
running a little way back between the others, in 
such a way as to be quite informal. As an 
example, in a planting of summer flowers, if 
there is a main patch of Salvia patens and in 
front of it the pretty blue Cape Daisy, Agathea 
ccelestis, this would be carpeted with the dwarf 
Lobelia Erinus, and for a good distance, such as 
8 or io feet, if the border is of some length. This 
group might give way, by a gradual interplanting, 
to another of white flowers, such as tall white 
Snapdragons and double white Marguerite ; then, 
coming forward, intermediate and dwarf white 
Snapdragons, with an edging of Sweet Alyssum, 
and so on. 
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