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true “Blue Jay” is larger, and is a cold, 
light-bluish violet, beautifully marked with 
a deep blue violet and white. “Baron Jo¬ 
seph Hulot” would work perfectly into a 
purple scheme; “Blue Jay” would not. 
There are a few good pale dahlias of violet 
and purple tones, but the darker ones are 
awful! 
Simple rules for using purple and violet 
in combination with other colors are as fol¬ 
lows : 
ist. Purples, pale and deep, from phlox 
pink to prune purple, with each other, with 
creamy white and pale creamy yellow. 
2d. With deep blue violets, a brighter 
yellow, and sometimes a cold white. With 
pale blue violets, creamy yellow. All blue 
violets with each other, and with creamy 
white. 
3d. With palest violets and palest pur¬ 
ples, rose pink and pale rose pink. (Rose 
color is much deeper.) 
4th. If one is experienced, one may 
make wonderful combinations of clear vio¬ 
let and spectrum blue, purple and Tyrian 
rose, and daring “dabs” of bright rose, 
scarlet, or orange, but for the average col¬ 
orist, in the average garden, the first, sec¬ 
ond and third plans are the best. 
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In natural sequence to the consideration 
of blue in the border comes the thought of 
its complement, yellow, and with equal 
spontaneity the thought of gold follows 
upon that of the royal purple. But, in 
handling this most useful and delightful 
color, one must not lose sight of the fact 
that yellow is not gold, and will not draw 
a color scheme together as true gold would 
do. 
There is a class of yellows, however, al¬ 
most “as good as gold,” and second only 
to cream white in value — the creamy, 
opaque pale tints, maize, and straw and 
pale buff-yellows. The earliest of these 
are shown among the tulips, and they 
are a little deeper, perhaps, than the best 
of these “binding” colors. Delicate, lily¬ 
like Tulipa retroilexa, and later “Flava,” 
“Moonlight,” and “Miss Allen Willmott,” 
are all exquisite, the last-named being a 
trifle darker than the others, and delight¬ 
fully sweet-scented. 
One of the very best of these tints is 
Iris Havescens, a heavenly tint of palest 
straw, which will combine literally with 
any color. Thalictrum Havum, which is 
listed by Kelway and by one or two Ameri¬ 
can dealers, is a most useful straw color; 
the foliage is like a large, pale green Maid- 
en’s-hair, and the flowers a feathery mass 
of pale, creamy yellow, which would 
lighten and relieve almost any composition 
in both color and form. 
If climate permits — “south of Phila¬ 
delphia” — the loveliest pale yellow of all 
is the yellow Tree Lupine, absolutely per¬ 
fect in every essential save that of hardi¬ 
ness. The palest yellow snapdragons are 
good, but, like the deeper ones, which are 
equally valuable in their place, they are 
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