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APPLICATION OF THE ORANGE BLOT, TO A GROUP OF 
ORANGE-COLOURED FLOWERS. 
There is no flower, that I recollect, better adapted to exemplify this 
blot, than the common nasturtium, whose petals display all the gradations 
of orange, from the lightest shade down to the deepest tint; and some 
of them also include scarlet, so that there could hardly be found a subject 
fitter for the purpose; especially, as the outsides of the petals, stalks, and 
buds, are coloured with a kind of pale broken orange, very favourable 
for the distribution of the colour throughout the group. The green leaves, 
too, are of a happy tint, as their yellowish green hue on the upper side, and 
grey tint on the under, makes it easy to dispose and intermix them with 
the flower in whatever way fancy may direct. 
In this flower, therefore, we have every thing to be wished for in 
point of harmony of colour; but in regard to contrast, it is entirely defi¬ 
cient, and of course blue must be introduced by some other means. If 
we take a flower to do it, perhaps no better will be found, then some 
one or other of the convolvolus tribe, which might be beautifully twined 
and intermixed with the nasturtium: but of these I should not, on this 
occasion, make choice of the major convolvolus, as in that flower there 
are two jarring colours, blue and crimson; and the minor convolvolus would 
have a better effect. The white and yellow in that flower affords an opportunity 
of introducing both black in opposition to the white, and lilac or purple in op¬ 
position to the yellow; if the situation of the convolvolus in the group should 
make these contrasting tints necessary, that is, if the convolvolus has light 
enough thrown upon it to shew the yellow and white in their pure state, then, 
the addition of lilac and black in a small proportion, may increase both the 
harmony and spirit of the group. In the disposal of them in the group, 
the first thing to be considered, is the proper quantity of each; which, if the 
