CONVERTING A GLOOMY ROOM INTO A CHEERFUL ONE. 65 
ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS AS TO COLOURS, &Kc. 
BY G, B. N. OF SOMERSET. 
In our last Number some remarks on this subject from a Corres- 
pondent were inserted. The table of colours there alluded to was lost, 
but discovered afterwards, too late; however, for insertion in that 
Number. Our Correspondent hopes, in which we unite, that some 
lady amateur, whose province, perhaps, it is, would specify the colours, 
in some ‘such way as the following table suggests :— 
2. Complimentary 
1. Colour. imo 32 Contrast. 4. 
Scarlet. White. This fourth column 
Orange. Blue. might contain ex- 
Yellow. Purple. amples to illustrate 
Red. Green. the proposed ar- 
Maroon, e. g. Louis Philippe | rangement, and per- 
Verbena. haps there should be 
Pink. | another column *be- 
Pale Lilac, e.g. Vangendi | tween 2 and 3, to 
Verbena. give illustrations of 
Rosy, e. g. Mesembryanthe- that also. 
mum tricolor. 
Crimson, e.g. Basilisk or 
Barberi Verbena. 
CONVERTING A’ GLOOMY ROOM INTO A CHEERFUL 
ONE. 
BY ELIZABETH. 
Axour one year since I was induced to try an experiment on a gloomy sit- 
ting-room window, facing a narrow street, by substituting plants for the 
usual appendages of blinds, &e. The plan I adopted was this :—on the 
outside of the window, I had a shelf fixed as close to the glass as would but 
just allow for the opening of the sash, and raised about a quarter of a 
yard from the ledge on which it stands ; on the other side of the window, 
in the room, isastand consisting of two shelves, the height of which comes 
about a quarter ofa yard lower than the one outside, the other shelf of the 
stand being about the same distance from the top, next the same, from 
the floor; a row of plants. are then arranged on the outside of the 
window, on the shelf placed there, care being taken that they occupy 
the intervals left between the plants in the room, so as to exclude the 
light as little as possible, merely with a view to supply the deficiency 
of a blind. Thus arranged in three successive rows (not crowded) the 
effect is very well, converting a dull sitting-room into a ‘pleasant one. 
_ The “tout ensemble ” appeared really as one, and the iJlusion’scarcely 
"perceptible, at the same time occupying hardly any space in the room,” 
_soas to be inconvenient. Though an amateur in floriculture, I am a great 
_ admirer of this interesting department of the Almighty’s love and power, 
_who has scattered thiese fair relics of paradise around us, thus enliven- 
“ing the desert of human life—yet too often in vain—on his blind and 
erring creatures, who though rather seeking happiness in those things 
which remind them the least of them, and banish them from their 
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