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This overmajitel has been treated as a special 
background for the picture and has been deco¬ 
rated with a differc7it design from that cf the 
rest of the room 
PICTURES and their BACKGROUND 
{Continued from page 138) 
for oil colors or pastels; small pictures 
look particularly well on this tint. Green 
is the most tractable; it makes a good 
background for flesh tints, and, therefore, 
is a suitable choice for figure subjects and 
some portraits; the shade known as olive 
green is best; garish tones or anything 
that approaches crudity destroys the 
values. 
Dull red is a useful background for 
etchings, engravings, and mezzotints, 
though for delicate water colors and pale 
color prints it is too emphatic. Bronze in 
the clear color of a new “copper” coin is 
another most valuable background for 
pictures. The only trouble about bronze 
and the bronze shades is in their tendency 
to absorb light; so when the lighting of a 
room is poor, something else should be 
chosen. Ivory and cream can be charming 
in alliance with a symmetrical arrange¬ 
ment of black framed pictures or silhou¬ 
ettes or some such scheme, but unless a 
deliberate efiect is aimed at and achieved, 
anything so obvious and easy is apt to be a 
little commonplace in efiect. 
Frames should be a part of the decora¬ 
tive scheme; they form the link between 
the painting and the background, isolat¬ 
ing, as it were, fantasy from fact. The 
“handsome” frame of another epoch has 
disappeared, with its bright gilding and 
voluptuous curves; old frames, coppery 
brown and tarnished gold, are sought for 
instead. Quite apart from their intrinsic 
worth, there is a decorative value about 
old paintings in their dim old frames that 
is incontestable and the new Richman who 
buys ancestors to decorate his baronial 
halls is not very wide of the mark. 
SOME of the CAMPANULA FAMILY 
{Continued from page 74) 
pictured here, is one of the type best 
suited for wild gardens. These hardy 
taller types should j)e seeded in spring 
and the seedlings transplanted to a shady 
spot until the autumn when they are 
placed in their permanent positions, 
where they will flower the following 
summer. 
Of the tall group the following are not 
difficult to raise: 
Peach Bells, C. persicifolia, T-f high, 
comes in white or violet on tall stems and 
blooms in July and August. It dislikes 
division and therefore is best renewed by 
seed when necessary. There are several 
named varieties, one of which is Telham 
Beauty, which grows rather taller than 
the usual type and has a number of wide, 
purple-blue bells swinging on fine, wiry 
stems from a strong central spike. 
Moerheimi is a semi-double creamy white 
form. C. gigantea is a tall garden hybrid 
of this type, with white or lavender-blue 
flowers. 
The Canterbury Bell, C. medium, is a 
favorite biennial easily grown from seed 
sown in March or April. Its seedlings 
should be transplanted to a shady spot 
and finally set out in September. It 
forms a closely covered pyramid of large 
bells, white, pink, lilac or blue, and has 
several forms, including the semi-double 
“cup and saucer”, which is somewhat 
criticized as being rather clumsy. 
C. pyramidalis, the chimney bell 
flower, is a beautiful thing when seen at 
its best, six feet high or more, but it needs 
rather a favorable soil. Although it is 
perennial it must generally be treated as 
a biennial and sown afresh each year in 
spring. Some plants can be lifted in the 
autumn and kept in a cool house through 
the winter, but even if this is done they 
are mostly short lived. It is often grown 
in pots to flower in the house. 
Great Bell Flower, C. lactiflora, is not 
grown as much as it deserves. The type 
bears graceful panicles of milky white 
flowers and there is also a charming pale 
blue form. It serv'es well in the wild 
garden or on the margin of a shrub border. 
It has purple, lavender, and white forms, 
the rather narrow bells set close and 
rather stiffly on a strong stem often 5 ' in 
height. The variety C. L. macrantha has 
large deep purple flowers. 
Clustered Bell Flower, C. glomerata, is 
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