5 § 
APPLICATION OF THE CRIMSON BLOT TO A GROUP OF 
ROSES. 
The great variety of different roses which the gardens now afford, gives 
file pain teTthe power of exemplifying this blot, either by a pale or a deep 
shade of the colour, as there is every gradation of it, from the palest pink next 
to white, down to the deepest shade of crimson, next to violet; and even to 
violet itself, in a new variety of the flower, named the blue, but more properly 
the purple rose. 
I shall endeavour to dispose of the whole range, as being a more useful 
example than a part of it only: but the colour, although beautiful, not being in 
itself of any great force, especially in the palest degree, the addition of white 
into the composition, which of course admits black, would be of considerable 
advantage; as without such aid, it would want that forcetof effect necessary to 
give it sufficient consequence as a composition, but which the addition of 
black and white would supply. 
The contrasting tint green, is supplied by the rose leaf, which contains all 
the various shades that can be wanted. 
The yellow seeds of the rose, which often approach to orange, call for both 
blue and lilac ; the latter a new variety of the single rose affords, but the blue 
must be introduced by some other flower. With these materials, or colours, 
compose as follows. 
At A, a white rose must be placed, so as to receive the light fully; around 
it there may be others of a mixture of pink and white, with yellow seeds so 
pale as to harmonize with the white; at B and C some of a full pink with 
less light upon them; at D there should be a weak mixture of pink, lilac, 
