38 HOME AND GAKDEN 



the sumptuous splendour of the region beyond. I 

 am not sure that the return journey would not present 

 the more brilliant picture of the two, for I have often 

 observed in passing from warm colouring to cold, that 

 the eye receives a kind of delightful shock of surprise 

 that colour can be so strong and so pure and so alto- 

 gether satisfying. And in these ways one gets to 

 know how to use colour to the best garden effects. It 

 is a kind of optical gastronomy; this preparation 

 and presentation of food for the eye in arrangements 

 that are both wholesome and agreeable, and in which 

 each course is so designed that it is the best possible 

 preparation for the one next to come. 



I think I would also allow some bold patches of 

 tall Tuhps in the Wall-flower garden; orange and 

 yellow and brown and purple, for one distinct departure 

 from the form and habit of the main occupants of the 

 garden would give value to both. 



