THE MIXED BORDER 
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delphiniums in royal blue and a feathery 
bush of sulphur-coloured tree lupin has been 
a proved success, do not be tempted into re- 
peating that at intervals along your border. 
Rather make a larger grouping of it, and if 
you feel you can use the same combination 
again, place this time some totally different 
plants around it. For instance, if before, a 
handsome tuft of green- and white-leaved iris 
were its foreground, with the grey grass of 
white pinks in front of that, have for the 
second clump of delphinium and lupin some 
white foxgloves as neighbours, and a fore- 
ground of the glaucous blue-green of Funkia 
Sieboldii . 
An example of bushes of La France roses 
in a Welsh garden, superb as their growth 
certainly was, is always before me as a warning 
against repetition. They recurred at regular 
intervals, these intervals being filled in hap- 
hazard with red and yellow flowers. It is 
always better, if you have a number of plants 
of one kind, to mass them in one or two 
large irregular plantings, running rather length- 
wise in the border than in a round clump ; 
and in a very long border you will find it far 
more effective, because simpler (and herein 
lies the truth of the whole matter), than to 
