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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1914 
I ®5r J L.MOTT IRON WORKS 
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WORKS 
J828 EIGHTY-SIX YEARS OF SUPREMACY 1914 
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New Brighton, Pa 
and this into fainter blue as distance 
grows greater. Create a sense of dis¬ 
tance, therefore, if you will—or of spa¬ 
ciousness, we would call it, in a garden, 
I think — by arranging flowers according 
to this color principle. Purple flowers 
near by, flowers less purple and more 
blue after these, deep blue following 
these, and fainter blue finally at the 
“vanishing point.” Really one could 
make a lovely garden all of blues and 
purples — and have flowers all summer 
long, too. Squills, iris, monkshood, lark¬ 
spur, New England asters, lavender, 
bugle, Columbine, bell-flowers, flax, 
Stokesia, Veronica, trilliums — what not, 
indeed? Miss Lucy’s list of just blues 
and lavenders has nearly fifty plants in 
it! 
Scarlet and gold shades, he told us, by 
this same token warm up and close up a 
cold and dreary prospect, and fill a gar¬ 
den with a sense of life and cheer; all 
the pinks bring joy and radiance, which 
last I always knew—at least I know they 
have always brought joy and radiance to 
me, and it is impossible not to judge 
others somewhat hy oneself. White he 
bad little to say about, regarding it more 
as a negative than a positive, it would 
seem—as, of course, it is. And when one 
stops to think of it, there really seems 
very little sense in the idea that white 
flowers are color peacemakers, as so 
many claim for them — for they never 
tone down the faults or the assertiveness 
of anything next door, as a true peace¬ 
maker must. Rather they serve by their 
chaste elegance to emphasize faults and 
to intensify assertiveness just by the 
force of contrast. And Miss Lucy showed 
me long since that the placing of white 
flowers was as much of an art as the 
grouping of colored ones. 
She was as interested in all that Mrs. 
Salton-Appleby’s artist said as the veri¬ 
est novice, and took notes industriously to 
his evident delight, which made me wish 
he could see the waves of color that 
sweep through her garden during the 
summer. To give him his due, however, 
I must acknowledge that he seemed to 
have hit upon the wave idea, except that 
Miss Lucy works from the deep, rich 
color up to a climax of brilliancy that 
lightens and foams over into white usual¬ 
ly ; while he got no farther than a grada¬ 
tion of tones similar to the purple-blue 
scheme described for distance. Of course, 
she does not always dash color up to the 
point where it simply has to break into 
white, for there are lovely great masses 
here and there all over her garden where 
just one color feasts the eye. But there 
are one or two times during the season's 
procession when such a breathless flood 
mounts up and tumbles over; and when 
I spoke of it to her once, and asked her 
how it happened that anything so won¬ 
derful could be, sbe smiled her little 
quiet, sweet smile, and shook her head 
and said, “It didn’t happen, my dear — at 
least, not altogether.” 
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