. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 148 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. varied plants should be grouped in informal masses. Here and there groups may be allowed to mingle where they approach one another, the taller-growing subjects of which one section is composed becoming less closely set as they approach the confines of their allotted space, and throwing up their lofty flow er spikes at greater intervals as they advance in scattered formation into the ground occupied by the neighbouring dwarfer-habited group. Narrow borders, naturall
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 148 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. varied plants should be grouped in informal masses. Here and there groups may be allowed to mingle where they approach one another, the taller-growing subjects of which one section is composed becoming less closely set as they approach the confines of their allotted space, and throwing up their lofty flow er spikes at greater intervals as they advance in scattered formation into the ground occupied by the neighbouring dwarfer-habited group. Narrow borders, naturally, do not admit of the same latitude in the disposition of the plants as is afforded by those of greater width, but even in the former the breadth of the groups should not be unduly limited, or the effect of foreshortening, when the border is viewed from the end, will give it the appearance of being planted in lines. For this better, in very narrow beds, to allow one gi to back rather than to divide reason roup to occupy the entire space from it is front the width between two genera. The practice of dotting plants singly about the surface of the herbaceous border is one that cannot be too strongly condemned, yet it is one that unfortu- nately obtains in a vast number of cases. This custom has entailed much undeserved obloquy upon the mixed border, which has in consequence been designated a " contused muddle " ; but w hen laid out with an artistic sense of the rightful values of colour and form, no such stigma can attach to it. Having briefly touched upon the grouping of the plants destined to till the border, with regard to their presenting a natural effect, the question of colour-asso- ciation has to be considered. Plants may be disposed in unconventional masses, and yet the herbaceous border may present anything but an attractive appearance, owing to the fact that no thought has been bestowed upon the arrangement of colour harmonies and contrasts. The border should
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