Waterside Autumn (1904) it shows every intention of ripening its seeds, so 

 Plants I hope we shall be successful in raising some more. 



Eulalia japonica xebrina and E. japonica gractllima foL 

 striatis^ or more correctly, Miscanthus, are both good all the 

 year round. They grow about 3 feet high and are highly 

 ornamental water-grasses. The first has yellow blotches or 

 transverse bars on the leaves ; the second has a longitudinal 

 stripe of cream-colour on both edges and on the centre of every 

 leaf. The flowers are reddish-brown plumes, something like 

 those of Phragmites, and in warmer countries, where they 

 appear more freely, add greatly to the beauty. 



Cyperus longus is a perennial Sedge, rare in its wild state 

 as a native, though it grows freely in the Channel Islands. It 

 has a stiff three-cornered or triquetrous stem, and rises to 4 

 feet or more, carrying graceful brown flowers at the top of the 

 plant, borne umbel-fashion on radiating leafy bracts. 



Now my long tale has really drawn to its end, and some 

 may think, who know the subjects which I have treated, that I 

 have exaggerated and laid on the colours too thick, that such 

 words as " brilliant orange " or " vivid scarlet " are out of place 

 in describing live woods. To them I would reply as Turner 

 did to the man who objected that he never saw such colours in 

 real sunsets as appeared in the artist's picture of them " Don't 

 you wish you could ? " 



In deed and truth it is the old story of " eyes and no 

 eyes." Given bright sunlight, without which no colours can 

 be fully seen, there they are if we will only observe them, and 

 the more we look the more we see. It is the perfect harmony 

 of Nature's work which hides her brilliant hues from the 

 careless, though to the patient watcher she reveals fresh beauties 



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