LETTER XXII 



Mistakes made by Artists in Painting Flowers Water- Lilies 

 Teasel Roses Truth to Nature Seed-cases Winter Aconite 

 Christmas Rose Crown Imperial Wood Hyacinth Drought 

 Glare Round the Sun. 



nth fune, 1895. 



DEAR MARCO When visiting our annual 

 exhibitions I have often been rather distressed 

 at the carelessness, as to the facts of nature, 

 displayed by many artists in the introduction 

 of flowers into their pictures. For instance, 

 water-lilies are frequently represented growing 

 in what is obviously meant to be shallow 

 water ; whereas they grow only in deep water, 

 and where the bottom is soft and muddy. 

 White water-lilies are constantly painted with 

 the foliage of the common yellow one ; the 



