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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
place your orange-red Oriental poppy next to 
your pink pasony, for they flower at the same 
time, nor near your crimson pyrethrum ; but it 
goes well with lupins, and even with the lilac 
and white single rocket, so much more beauti- 
ful in its tall branching growth than the dumpy 
double rocket. 
Linum dalmatic a ^ of sulphur-yellow flowers 
and blue-grey smooth foliage, is happily placed 
near the blue anchusas ; delphiniums and tree 
lupins, white and yellow, fraternise well. A 
clump of orange Lilium croceum never looks 
better than at the foot of a bold group of dark 
blue larkspur ; or, if lilies will not grow in your 
soil, a plant or two of orange-scarlet lychnis. 
It is astonishing to find that sometimes an 
accidental encounter of two colours, sounding 
abominable on paper, will turn out most 
attractive when seen growing together. A 
plant of the rosy mauve Salvia Sclarea , some 
5 feet high, seeded itself and came up and 
flowered next to this scarlet lychnis, with the 
happiest effect ; the mauve seemed to take on 
all the silvery-grey tones when next the scarlet, 
and showed it up well. 
It seems easier to harmonise the late summer 
flowers than the earlier. The greys and mauves 
of Michaelmas daisies, and the many yellows 
