1 6 COLOUR SCHEMES 



the white Poets' Daffodil of the upper ground, they 

 are all of trumpet kinds, and the greater number of 

 strong yellow colour. For the Daffodils range through 

 the wood in a regular sequence of kinds that is not 

 only the prettiest way to have them, but that I have 

 often found, in the case of people who did not know 

 their Daffodils well, served to make the whole story 

 of their general kinds and relationships clear and 

 plain ; the hybrids of each group standing between 

 the parent kinds ; these again leading through other 

 hybrids to further clearly defined species, ending with 

 the pure trumpets. As the sorts are intergrouped at 

 their edges, so that at least two removes are in view 

 at one time, the lesson in the general relationship of 

 kinds is easily learnt. 



They a.re planted not in patches, bu t in long drifts.. 

 a way that not only shows the plant in good number 

 to better advantage, but that is singularly happy in 

 its effect in the woodland landscape. This is specially 

 noticeable towards the close of the day, when the 

 sunlight, yellowing as it nears the horizon, lights up 

 the long stretches of yellow bloom with an increase of 

 colour strength, while the wide-stretching shadow- 

 lengths throw the woodland shades into large phrased; 

 of broadened mass, all subdued and harmonised by 

 the same yellow light that illuminates the long level 

 ranks of golden bloom. 



From this same walk in June, looking westward 

 through the Birch stems, the value of the careful 

 colour scheme of the Rhododendrons is fully felt. 

 They are about a hundred yards away, and their mass 



