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the various harmonies of red and blue. The Angle 

 compound colour, made up of blue and yellow, 

 which conflitutes the green of our herbage, is fo 

 varied in every plain, that each plant, I may ven- 

 ture to affirm, has it's peculiar fliade of that co- 

 lour. I can have no doubt that Nature has dis- 

 played, in equal variety, the other colours of her 

 palette, in the bofom of flowers, or on the furface 

 of fruits. 



In performing this, (lie fometimes employs very 

 different tints, without confounding them ; but 

 (lie lays them on one above another, fo that they 

 form the doves-neck : fuch is the beautiful (hag 

 which garnifhes the corolla of the anemone; in 

 other cafes, flie glazes their furface, as certain 

 molTes with a green ground, which are glazed 

 over with purple ; fhe velvets others, fuch as the 

 panfy ; fhe powders over fome fruits with a deli- 

 cately fine flour, fuch as the purple plumb, diftin- 

 guiflied by the addition of de Monjieur; or invefts 

 them with a light down to foften their vermilion, 

 as the peach ; or fmooths their fkin, and gives the 

 brighteft luflre to their colours, as to the red of 

 the apple of Calleville. 



What embarrafTes Naturalifts the mod, in de- 

 nominating colours, is to find diflinctive epithets 

 |br fuch as are dufky ; or rather, this gives them 



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