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the colour-strength recedes in an inverse sequence 

 through orange and deep yellow to pale yellow, 

 white and palest pink, with the blue-grey foliage. 

 But at this, the eastern end, instead of the pure 

 blues, we have purples and lUacs. 



"Looked at from a little way forward, for a 

 wide space of grass allows this point of view, ,the 

 whole border can be seen as one picture, the cool 

 colouring of the ends enhancing the brilliant 

 warmth of the middle. Then, passing along the 

 wide path next the border, the value of the colour- 

 arrangement is still more strongly felt. Each 

 portion now becomes a picture in itself, and every 

 one is of such a colouring that it best prepares the 

 eye, in accordance with natural law, for what is 

 to follow. Standing for a few moments before the 

 endmost region of grey and blue, and saturating 

 the eye to its utmost capacity with these colours, 

 it passes with extraordinary avidity to the succeed- 

 ing yellows. These intermingle in a pleasant 

 harmony with the reds and scarlets, blood-reds and 

 clarets, and these lead again to yellows. Now the 

 eye has again become saturated, this time with the 

 rich colouring, and has th-^refore, by the law of 

 complementary colour, acquired a strong appetite 

 for the greys and purples. These therefore assume 



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