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pleasing effect. The placing the most brilliant colour in the highest light at A 
and the deepest contrasting tint in the darkest shades at B, should be invanab y 
done in every composition; and letting the lighter ones take their proper places in 
the group, where all, if properly arranged, will join in giving effect to the w o e. 
We will now reckon up the tints that may be employed in this group. 
There are, scarlet in the petals of the poppy, yellow and orange in the seeds, 
green in the leaves, with blue and lilac in small proportions flung in, as fancy may 
direct; and these, with all their various shades, are what we have to work wit . 
Suppose A to be a field poppy, so placed that the light shall strike fully 
unon it and give it all the brilliancy possible ; while another part of the flower, 
r 1 1 •J in shade should be so much out of the light, as to shew its true 
W1 , 10U hi § h either t0 o strong a light, or any degree of shade, would prevent 
T In Ind the rest of the flower should be so turned from the light, as 
being seen, and m R and C I would place more poppies 
" with'that at A ; bat 'have le»s brilliancy: at C there 
:"o.£Tof a weaker tint of scarlet, whose pebats~£ 
case.) incline . IMU «£rose colony,or p,nk, » ^ ^ ^ ^ 
harmonize with, and give value to those of lighter tints. 
, a a.i,lir r pr] to bring in the contrasting tint, by 
It often happens that we a S ' ^ leaf affords us the very 
means of some other flower 01 0 J ’ h gome P Qf a ye il 0 wer shade will be re- 
^ *** ° f ^ SCarlCt HlaC ’ ^ alS<> 
as an harmonizing tint to the yellow. 
, a ii the liohter tints should be interspersed 
I need scarcely repeat tha “ h de as the occasion may 
throughout \ and P»«ake of lb. W » »»ad=, 
require, and in the quantities already pointed out. 
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