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is greatest when this colour (as in the human face) is 

 placed side by side or fades into some shade of red or 

 pink. I think we may see this even in a small 

 flower like the fumitory, in which one portion is 

 deep purple and all the rest of the blossoms a deli- 

 cate pink. Even when the red is very intense, 

 as in the common field poppy, the pleasing ex- 

 pression of purple on red is very evident. 



To return to pure reds. We may say that just 

 as purples in flowers look best, or have a greater 

 degree of expression, when appearing in or with 

 reds, so do the most delicate rose and pink shades 

 appeal most to us when they appear as a tinge or 

 blush on white flowers. Probably the flower that 

 gives the most pleasure on account of its beautiful 

 flesh-tints of different shades is the Gloire de 

 Dijon rose, so common with us and so universal a 

 favourite. Roses, being mostly of the garden, are 

 out of my line, but they are certainly glorious to 

 look at glorious because of their associations, 

 their expression, whether we know it or not. One 

 can forgive Thomas Carew the conceit in his lines 



Ask me no more where Jove bestows 

 When June is past, the fading rose, 

 For in your beauty's orient deep 

 These flowers as in their causes sleep. 



