Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . No. 7. No. 8. Nos. 7 and 8 illustrate the simplest possibleform of bed. No. 7 is designed for plants to beset in rows. In a bed of this kind flowering 3U CARPET-BEDDING plants can be used .more effectively than in anyof the others. Pink, white, and pale yellow Phloxwould be very pretty in such a combination. would be quite effective if each of the five sec-tions were of a different color of Coleus. Or thewhole star might be of a solid color, with a bor-der of contrasting color. Red Coleus withMadame Salleroi Geranium as a b
Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . No. 7. No. 8. Nos. 7 and 8 illustrate the simplest possibleform of bed. No. 7 is designed for plants to beset in rows. In a bed of this kind flowering 3U CARPET-BEDDING plants can be used .more effectively than in anyof the others. Pink, white, and pale yellow Phloxwould be very pretty in such a combination. would be quite effective if each of the five sec-tions were of a different color of Coleus. Or thewhole star might be of a solid color, with a bor-der of contrasting color. Red Coleus withMadame Salleroi Geranium as a border wouldlook well. So would yeUow Coleus edged withCentaurea, FLOWERING AND FOLIAGEPLANTS FOR EDGING BEDSAND WALKS. E do not lay as much stresson edging beds and walkswith flowering plants asformerly, but the practiceis a most pleasing one, andought not to be is one of the phases ofgardening that has been allowed to fall into dis-use, to a considerable extent, but there are al-ready signs that show it is coming back to its oldpopularity, along with the old-fashioned flowersthat are now more in favor than ever is as it should be. A bed without a pretty border or edgingalways seems incomplete to me. It is as if theowner of it ran short of material before it wasfinished. The bit of lace or ribbon that is to addthe last touch of grace and beauty to the gownis lacking. Especially is a border of flowering plantssatisfactory if kinds are selected which bloom 216 PLANTS FOR EDGING throughout the greater part of the season. Theplants we make use of in the centre of the bedare not always attractive before they come intobloom, neither are they that after they havepassed their prime, b
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