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colored flowers through the garden, will 
do no harm. Snapdragons, balsams, car- 
nations, and cosmos are all pleasing in 
combinations or mixed colors, but phlox is 
much more effective in separate color 
masses or in shadings from dark to light, 
and on to white; sweet peas, almost uni- 
versally planted in mixture, are much 
lovelier massed in a single color, and the 
annual larkspurs, though pleasing in mix- 
tures, are far more impressive when kept 
separate. Shades ranging from the light- 
est tone to the darkest of one color, such as 
these show in blue or pink, make lovely 
groups. 
Use plenty of white flowers always, not 
only between the color groups, but scat- 
tered into them here and there — just at 
their edges. Flower groups in a mixed 
border should always show this irregular- 
ity where they come in contact, inter- 
mingling to a certain extent and never 
stopping with a definite line. Only in 
somewhat formal arrangements should 
plants ever conform to sharp and clearly 
drawn lines. Do not depend altogether 
on the presence of white between two inhar- 
monious colors, however, to make the effect 
