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After some such scheme has been mapped out in your mind
or on paper, consult a catalogue and select the tulips which
will carry out your idea. Better pictures result from this
method than when you tear off the wrapper of the latest cata
logue, feverishly seize a pencil, begin at the first page, and
list on the order blank each new sensation or glowingly
described variety, without regard to its value in your garden.
Try the claret-red with soft lilac highlights of Notre Dame and
smaller groups of the breeder tulips, Denver and Elissa Landi,
whose rosy violet and purple will blend well. Accent with a
relatively small group of Sulphur Pearl. Underplant with purple
pansies or violas and a few small groups of Alyssum saxatile
citrinum. Repeat several times. This combination will be satisfy
ing alone or with a few other harmonious combinations.
Combine the cottage tulip, General de la Rey, with smaller
groups of sulphur-yellow lily-flowering Fascinating, and accent
with a touch of Good Gracious, a brilliant salmon outside and
translucent salmon-pink within. Underplant with forgetmenots,
or double-flowering arabis, whose creamy blossoms and good
gray foliage aid most any tulip combination.
For a yellow keynote, plant Treasure Island, a silvery yellow
deepening to primrose, with a deep yellow interior, with smaller
groups of deep yellow Belle Jaune, and contrast with the deeper
yellow purple-flushed Garden Magic. Underplant with yellow
or apricot violas, polemonium, or candytuft.
The pink Clara Butt, long used with the cool lavender Rev.
Ewbank, which has now disappeared from most lists, will look
well with the newer Insurpassable. If the pure pink Clara Butt
is unobtainable, the same color can be secured with Deborah.
Smaller groups of the stronger pink Adoration or deeper laven
der to purple Clematis will strengthen the composition, or the
clear yellow Mrs. Moon or Golden Duchess may be used as
accent. Underplant with polemonium, pale blue and yellow
violas or pansies, or with aubretia.
There are countless combinations that will create pictures
of great beauty, distinction, and charm. Such pictures create
subtle lasting impressions or strong, clear, vigorous contrasts.
The desirability of using several tulips, which harmonize with
each other and with perennials in the border, in large enough
groups to be effective cannot be too much stressed. These pic
tures should be repeated for balance at least twice, on oppo
site sides of the main axis, or even more often, to fill the
garden with color and beauty. This sort of arrangement is
better, we think, than a heterogeneous arrangement of various
unrelated tulips throughout the middle ground of the border.
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