COLOUR 

 Yet we in gardens rack our brains and study many COLOUR 



SCHEMES 



books to make our colour scheme a thing for Nature 

 to look upon and learn from. 



My companion was a young artist, whose know- 

 ledge and memory of flowers I shall ever covet. In 

 the huge garden in which we wandered amidst its 

 miles of trees and flowers, we were led by the con- 

 trolling hand which for many years had wooed them 

 into all their existing beauty, and my friend, realising 

 the master mind and long experience, bombarded him 

 with endless visionary colour schemes, until seeming 

 almost weary the veteran exclaimed : ' Ah ! these 

 colour schemes, I have tried many but they seldom 

 come off something fails.' Then pointing to a bank, 

 crowned by a fringe of wild cherry trees, he related how 

 the previous autumn Nature had early turned their 

 leaves to flaming reds and golds and produced with an 

 undergrowth a tangled mass of michaelmas daisies 

 a colour scheme beyond description ; an accident. 



Nature will not be ordered ; if we attempt to drive 

 her she is perverse. The varieties selected by us 

 prove too late or too early for that particular position, 

 flowering times do not coincide, while she from an 



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