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looking out for their own particular society. You are not to mix Dra- 
caenas with Pelargoniums, or Ferns with high Calceolarias, Ageratum, Petu- 
nias, Matricarias, etc.; these combinations would be against the habit of such 
plants. But you may combine weli lerns and Grasses with plants, having beauti- 
ful lucent leaves like Caladias, Liiias, etc.; every Fern possesses the quality for 
softening the greatest contrast. Of piants with variegated and silver leaves, choose 
or!y such, which go well with other plants, and arrange like this: Ceniaurea 
i\m.ioca-pa, candidissima and C. plumosa, Cinneraria maritima and Artemissia 
argontca, as a single plant; or in the centre of a group, surrounded by low 
[)lants, in rich flowering state, as: Rosa Lawrenciana, Lobelia raniosa and 
erinoidcs, Iberis sempervivens, Dianthus Chinensis and impcrialis flore pleno, 
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