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the veronicas, lavender, day-lilies, or a sheaf of 
white Madonna lilies will give this upright 
note that is requisite, so will snapdragons, 
foxgloves, and later on Hyacinth candicans . 
A glance at the accompanying picture will 
illustrate my meaning. 
In giving lists of plants for foregrounds, or 
middle or back rows, it must be remembered 
that some break must always be made. Here 
and there some middle-row group such as 
achillea Crimson Queen should run back 
among the taller background plants of Galega 
officinalis (grey-mauve), or the back-row plant 
Artemisia lactiffora (cream - coloured) come 
boldly forward among Veronica spicata (blue), 
while geum Mrs Bradshaw (orange-scarlet) 
could come well into the foreground of Santo - 
lina incana , the grey-dwarf variety. 
Clematis recta y cream, and anchusa opal, 
pale blue, could rise from a stretch of (Knot her a 
fruticosa , yellow and low-growing, doing away 
with a middle-distance plant altogether. A 
patch of Veronica amethystina would find its 
spikes of quiet blue well shown up by clouds 
of rosy larkspur, an annual ; and Salvia nemorosa 
virgata will make a daring purple patch of 
medium height against the lurid scarlet and 
orange of some big groups of tritoma. In 
