282 HOME AND GARDEN 



flank. I never can forget the sudden shock of that 

 strangely-coloured apparition. A knot had dropped 

 out of one of the boards, and a round spot of warm 

 afternoon sunlight came straight through on to the 

 horse's white coat that was blue-lighted from the 

 large north window. 



The way colour is applied in brilliant flowers is 

 the subject of a never-ending and always delightful 

 investigation. All painters know how difficult it is 

 to get a brilliant colouring of clear, unmuddled 

 scarlet. It can only be done, especially in water- 

 colour, by running the scarlet over a preparation of 

 clear strong yellow. This is exactly how nature 

 gets over the same difficulty in flowers of that 

 colour. 



It always seems to me that one of the things 

 most worth doing about a garden is to try to make 

 every part of it beautiful ; not the pleasure garden 

 only, but some of the rougher accessories also, so 

 that no place is unsightly. For the faggot-stack 

 can be covered with Gourds or Vegetable Marrows, 

 or quick growing rambling thmgs like the wild Bind- 

 weed {Convolvulus), or the garden variety with still 

 larger white bloom ; and the sides of the coke- 

 enclosure, built of posts and upright oak slabbing, 

 can have hardy Chrysanthemums below and a happy 

 tangle of wild Clematis above ; and sheds that would 

 be otherwise unbeautiful can be adorned with rampant 

 Vine and Jasmine and the free-growing Clematises 



