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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
ledge, combine when placed next to each other 
to give the effect you are trying to arrive 
at. In the same way, the wrong colours used 
together will give a very different effect to 
what you desire. Suppose a very brilliant 
effect is needed in one portion of a border, 
and you plant some vivid blue flower, such as 
Anchusa Dropmore, and a bright crimson 
Oriental poppy together. From a distance, or 
with half-closed eyes nearer, the two will 
merge into purple. No longer have you 
high light in that spot, but a purple shadow. 
Or, if you were to plant a bright scarlet poppy, 
you would get even a muddier or blacker 
effect. Just as in a picture you can paint a 
jet-black horse, such as the Landseer in the 
National Gallery, without any black at all, 
and with only dark blue, and crimson lake, 
and white — so if you use these same colours 
together in a flower border they must of 
necessity lose their brilliance when the border 
is looked at as a whole from some distance 
away. 
The very modern French landscape artist 
uses pure blue for his shadows in painting a 
sunny picture. 
Lafarge, the great American colourist, whose 
influence on the art of this century will equal 
