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aspiring and drooping plants, as well as the contrast of colours 



I have also endeavoured to delineate 



but found it impossible 



to do justice to the rainbow, either in its vivid hues or its trans- 

 parent effect I should have wished to give an adequate idea 

 of that harmonious contest which I witnessed betwixt the vivid 



teor 



l he sky, and the assemblage of objects seeming to 



1 



lh«' rainb 



the richness of their colours 



The next contrast I shall mention is that of Light and Dark, 

 not in shadow and shade, but of a variety in colouring observ- 

 able in Nature, and well worth cultivating in the art of Garden- 



i difficult to represent in painting. Of this I shall 



» 



although 



h 



enumerate several kinds. 



First, The difference 

 upon it, which renders it 



of 



a 



leaf with the light shining full 



an o 



pake 



object 



the same leaf 



i transparent by the light shining through it: 

 Secondly, The Contrast produced amidst th 



e more 



gaudy 



Colouring by the sort of repose that the eye derives, sometimes 

 from white flowers, as of the jasmine, the passion-flower 

 other plants, whose leaves are dark and not glossy: sometimes 



vanety m our gardens : while in others I have collected together all the different spe- 

 cies of some beautiful genus : thus in the Thornerv at Woburn are to be found every 

 species of thorns which will bear the climate. 



the U!Tr g ^ - ' WhGn ^ HOlW °° d ' P ° inted ^ ° Ut t0 Mr ' Pitt - * -urce of 

 1 e dehght we expenence m a sunny day, from an open trellis of vines overhead, , « 



ohage m the roof of a conservatory, he was so forcibly struck with the remark 



that 



some of which 



, :t :i a : < ^^^^--:rz 



NttW* as a ,ehef from the severer duties of his arduous situatW 



