ABSTRACT
The best way to educate ourself is to look at models of colouring. A warm colour usually divides two cold colours, or a cold colour two warm ones, or the two are mingled into a third tint at the junction. Blue flowers seldom lack a touch of warmer colour—lilac, pink, or yellow—to relieve their coldness; white ones are softened with yellow, greenish, or pinkish shadows or veins. The petals of the conventional flowers, are alternately concave and flat, and thus the light that strikes upon them, lends them a variety of colour: the two sides of course differ, although symmetrical, and the supports are at once handsome and indicative of strength and safeness, and the flowing patterns are very graceful. Pure pale yellow is a very becoming colour, and will harmonise with purple; with blue the contrast is too coarse.
