CHAPTER V 
COLOUR 
Broad effects — Masses of colour — Juxtaposition and contrasts 
of colour— The difficulty in choosing colours as de- 
scribed in catalogues — Efforts made to counterbalance 
this by the use of R.H.S. colour lists. 
This is a difficult subject to approach, as very 
few see eye to eye with regard to it. The 
average gardener has no sense of colour, good 
grower though he may be, and will cheerfully 
plant out magenta stocks in a blue border 
carefully designed by his master, without 
seeing any discord, and is much aggrieved and 
very hurt when he has to remove them in 
full bloom. 
In painting a picture, one places the colour 
one knows should be there rather than what 
one sees, and possibly in the arrangement of 
masses of colour in a border, an artist would 
arrange his flowers in exactly the right tone 
to give effect to the definite idea he has in 
mind. So that the border, designed as a 
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