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hends the whole at a glance ; and if they are well furnished, the result is the 

 highest amount of pleasure with the least effort. However, those who desire 

 more variety in the sky outline of their gardens, can introduce tall trained 

 plants of scarlet geraniums, brugmansias, heliotropes, fuchsias, cassias, &c. ; 

 or tropjeolums, convolvulus, and other climbers, as centres to their beds. 



1732. Those who have seen the rows of circular beds furnished in this 

 manner by Mr. Eobert Fish at Putteridgebury can hardly fail to be charmed 

 with this style. These starers, however, as they are technically called, require 

 great taste and judgment in their introduction, and are seldom either effective 

 or admissible, except in circular beds. As ribbon borders are now so fashion- 

 able, the following remarks and arrangements from Mrs. Merrifield's excel- 

 lent essay on the Harmony of Colours, exemplified by the Exhibition, 

 may be studied to good purpose, although, perhaps, neither of them are 

 examples of the best rihlons. The following is something like a natural prism 

 or rainbow : — 



Dark crimson. 



Mixed. 



Geranium. 



Eed. 



Orange. 

 Yellow. 



Green. 



Blue. 

 Violet. 



Dnll red. 



Grey. 



Mulberry. 



1733. The following is given as an instance of defective arrangement : — 



Dark blue. 



Scarlet. 



Green. 



Buff. 



Violet. 



Green. 

 Pea-green. 

 Black. 

 Dark green. 

 Scarlet. 



Blue. 

 Scarlet. 

 Violet. 

 Orange. 

 Cool green. 



Brown. 

 Salmon. 

 Pea-green. 



Blue. 

 Black, 



1734. Here we have black, dark blue, and pea-green in succession ; sapphire- 

 blue between two scarlets, pea-green between black and blue, — all unpleasant 

 combinations of colour. The dark and light colours are ai-ranged indis- 

 criminately, without any regard to effect. The following arrangement of the 

 same colours will be found more agreeable : — 



Dark blue. 



Orange. 



Sapphire-blue. 



Black. 



Green. 



1735. In this arrangement, the dark and brilliant colours, such as orange 

 and scarlet, occur at regular intervals, all the inharmonious contrasts of the 

 last diagram are avoided, and the colours are arranged, as nearly as the mate- 

 rials will admit, according to the laws of contrast : light and dark blue are 

 opposed to orange ; scarlet is contrasted with green, and green with violet. 



1736. In pictorial arrangement, variety of colour is obtained by the intro- 

 duction of different hues of the same colour, and of different degrees pf bright- 

 ness. For example, although it is px'oper to repeat certain colours, as red 

 for instance, it is not necessary that all the reds in a picture should be a bright 

 vermihon-colour : on the contrary, the picture will gain in beauty if one should 

 be of a dull earthy red, a third crimson, and so on, through all the scale of 

 colour. Mr. Mcintosh, in his "Book of the Garden," remarks upon this 

 thus: — "This rule will be of assistance to gardeners, as it extends the 



