Tate from the disk or rim, that is, it ought to be 
blended with or shaded into it, so as not to 
occasion any indistinctness between the edge 
of the one and the other. 
In flowers where these two properties of 
the eye are imperfect, the lively contrast or 
opposition between the rim and the eye, which 
otherwise reciprocally shew one another off to 
advantage, is in a great measure destroyed. 
The face of the whole pip, rim, and eye, 
to be so opened as to lie exactly or very nearly 
flat, for when either it inclines inwards (which 
is called cupping) or throws itself backwards, 
as a Martagan lily, both the true form 
colours are in a degree obscured, by being 
hidden and out of sight. 
THE TUBE OR PIPE. 
The tube or pipe should stand exactly in the 
centre of the blossom, and be truly circular 
or round ; it should be well filled with chives, 
and their apices in the form of a brush (gene- 
rally called the thrum) arising even with the 
face of the pip or blossom, for when only the 
style or pointal rises like a pin, without being 
encompassed with the chives to the same height, 
the flower is called pin-eyed, and shews a chasm 
or vacancy so very unpleasant to the curious 
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