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the flower of a very greyish-white almost like 
seed vessels, and Gypsophila paniculata , the 
single variety of which is a smoky grey, really 
must not be omitted. 
A colour-scheme in brown, yellow, and 
orange is stronger and more showy than the 
last, but perhaps to the collector not so 
interesting. Here one could take a copper 
beech as one’s note of colour to start from, or 
a Prunus pissardi , and bear in mind as one 
goes on the colourings of the azaleas, with 
their purple-red leaves in autumn and their 
flower-tints of salmon, orange, cream, and 
flame. One or two purple nuts, much the 
same colour as the copper beech, but not 
growing more than 7 or 8 feet high, have a 
handsome habit of growth and fine leaves, and 
bear excellent nuts of the same purple. They 
make a good background. 
With them I would associate the red spinach, 
which sows itself annually, and when in seed is 
a very graceful plant of good wine red. Also 
the tall cream and lemon-coloured sunflower, 
and pale yellow hollyhocks (single), and tall, 
creamy-yellow scabious, and spiraeas, aruncus 
and filipendula. Next to these might come 
some groups of tritoma in the many shades 
now obtainable, orange, scarlet, and lemon, and 
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