.Here is a good arrangement of phlox and hydrangeas in white and pink tones, affording an attractive and varied mass of light color bloom. 
It is best to employ more than one variety of flower to produce the desired color effects 
Color in the Flower Garden 
HOW TO PLANT FOR COLOR HARMONY AND THE AVOIDANCE OF GARISH CONTRASTS— 
THE] WONDERS THAT MAY BE WORKED BY AN ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS 
by Ida D. Bennett 
T HE idea which seems to prevail in most gardens is to fill them 
with flowers and still more flowers, adding whatever 
caprice of the moment dictates or whatever novelty happens to 
strike the fancy from time to time. 
The color relations which these new additions may bear to the 
old inhabitants of the garden is, apparently, little thought of, if, 
indeed, it ever occurs to the owner of the garden that as long as a 
flower is a flower and has individual merit, there can be any pos¬ 
sible objection to its presence. In fact with the average gardener, 
it seems really to be a matter of pride to possess as many varieties 
.of flowers as possible. But one has not learned the true art of 
-gardening until one learns to hold his hand and to go slowly when 
.adding to the garden's store. 
Especially is this true when the garden, as it exists, is a happy 
(expression of color and beauty. It is a safe conclusion that the 
average garden should be subtracted from rather than increased. 
Hi the garden in its entirety is the result of carefully thought out 
iplans, tthen there is little need of caution, as the owner is not apt 
to run amuck among strange flowers and unknown colors, but 
even here it is always well to pause and consider whether it is 
not well to let the new variety alone, at least one should always 
take the ^precaution of informing himself of just the color and 
shade of all such introductions to the garden. A trial garden is, 
perhaps, the most valuable possession a gardener can have. Here 
plants may be grown experimentally and transferred to the 
permanent garden as they prove their fitness, and there given 
just the conditions and environment that will bring out their 
good points to perfection. 
To emphasize the value of a color scheme one has but to think 
of various inharmonious colors and imagine them together, not 
for one day or for several, but for the entire season of their 
bloom, through a succession of years. 
It is not bad color work that a number of colors should occur 
in one garden but it is bad work when several tones of a color 
clash together. As an example; blue and red may appear in the 
same garden with less discord than scarlet and magenta. 
If one has no color scheme and is at a loss to invent one, a 
visit to the milliners and the massing together of a quantity of 
flowers will very soon demonstrate how much better the effect of 
the proximity of certain colors is than that of others, and having 
determined this, plans may be laid accordingly. When one desires 
a great diversity of colors then one must remember that white 
is a great peace-maker and intersperse white flowers liberally 
between any shades that have the least taint of enmity. 
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