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the red and green combination requires. In- 
deed, either the blue or the scarlet must be prac- 
tically nil save on close inspection. 
White flowers will of course break up the 
most unfriendly elements, but I do not fancy 
a resort to this means as greatly as some. 
Much white is always very desirable to give 
life and sparkle to a garden, but I prefer not 
to use it as a buffer between warring factions. 
They will as likely as not continue making faces 
at each other even when thus separated, for 
white, of course, can only separate, never unite. 
Progression around the circle is the only path 
to real union, never doubt that; and a garden 
whose color scheme is based upon this pilgrim- 
age is a garden of the greatest distinction, 
quietly and richly beautiful and filled with 
wonderful shades and tones. Whereas the 
common reliance upon white to break up in- 
harmony results in a brusque, disjointed, and 
sometimes most unsatisfactory effect. 
There is one other way out of color dif- 
ficulties which I must not neglect to mention — 
a way that makes many of the difficulties only 
apprehended after all and never actually met. 
This is the different time of bloom of the plants 
used. Colors that clash are seldom or never 
seen in a natural tangle of wild flowers for the 
