© Edna Walling Collection, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria

Source: MS 13048 box 3726

...but green is of paramount importance, and the colour effects only of secondary consideration; there is no escaping this fact.

At certain times of the day there is such a diversity of tones among the greens in a well planted garden...

With rather brilliant foliaged plants, such as Persian plums, it is best to try and achieve a gradual blending of tints, by planting trees and shrubs with a suggestion of red or bronze in the leaves as their associates, so that the dissimilitude of foliage colour passes from one to the other, ultimately reaching the predominate greens.

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