28 Making a Garden to Bloom This Year 
pleasing. Sometimes it is necessary to do 
more than plant something between such 
colors, as the chapter on color has in- 
timated. Maroons and scarlets, to go 
back to the two greatest offenders, are 
much more pleasingly reconciled by the 
introduction of the graded tones, as sug- 
gested, than they could be by having 
something white set in between them. In- 
deed, this will not reconcile them at all — - 
it will only separate them. And unless it 
separates them very far apart indeed, 
they will still carry on their warfare. 
It is not alone for purity of color that 
the separate seed packets are advised, but 
for choice of stock as well. The better 
varieties are usually grown in separate 
colors and furnished thus by the dealers ; 
hence there are two reasons for getting 
them in this way — and even where a mix- 
ture is desired, it is best to buy the sep- 
arate color packets and mix either the seed 
from these before they are put into the 
ground, or the plants as they are set out. 
Then, too, in even the choicest “ mixed 
packet 99 one color will almost certainly 
predominate, through its running stronger, 
perhaps, or through the mixture’s not be- 
