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pie in autumn. Look at tlie heathy hills in July and August, 
and how do they compel all the dots of green, aud red, and 
white, in the adjoining meads and hedgerows, to become sub¬ 
servient to their own vast and wonderful sheets of crimson, 
which the ling then clothes them with, as with a garment of 
fire! Or look, in spring-time, at some of the moist grass 
lands of the southern counties, when the lady’s-smock is in 
bloom, and how the snow-white vesture takes to itself a stripe 
of green as a girdle, and a sprinkling of yellow globe flowers 
as gold tassels and trimmings, the white still predominating, 
and by that fact making a deep and joyful impression on the 
mind of the beholder. hTor is it in any case hard to carry 
the idea into effect in planting ; it is, indeed, most easy. It 
makes the routine of bedding more simple than when it is 
inspired by untaught fancy, and does away with all those 
difficulties that beset mosaic painting, where one of the chief 
objects is to establish a balance of all the colours. 
“ Light and air 
Are ministers of gladness; where these spread 
Beauty abides and joy : wherever life is 
There is no melancholy.” 
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