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 clump 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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