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  • For No. 14, the following may be an acceptable planting arrangement: Border, Mme. Salleroi geranium; small dots, dwarf scarlet tropeolum; diamonds, blue lobelia; crescents, Stevia serrata variegata; inner border, crimson achyranthes or coleus; loops,

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • Your one coleus or achyranthes, so gorgeous in the sunlight, with a low setting of green or white, would lose half its own beauty among shady monkshood and full faced perennial phloxes, without helping them one bit.

    Gardening by Myself 1872

  • Scatter your colours broadcast indeed, and yet with a certain thought and method; have plenty of tufts of pure green, such as rose geraniums and the flowering grasses, with here and there a red achyranthes or mottled coleus to catch and hold the sun: and let fragrance abound everywhere.

    Gardening by Myself 1872

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