Pink more Lilac perhaps than upon a White ground. The good effect of the border upon this ground is due chiefly to the greatest part of the Pink not being contiguous to Red but to Green, because the ensemble of the border and the ground exhibits flowers the Pink of which contrasts with the Green of their leaves, while the same Green contrasts with the Red of the ground, which is deeper and warmer than the colour of the flowers. On an Orange Ground. (485.) The Green lighter, a little bluer than upon a White ground. Pink much more Violet than upon a White ground, On a Yellow Ground. (486.) Green bluer than upon a White ground. Pink more Violet, purer than upon a White ground. On a Green Ground, the tone of which is nearly equal to that of the lights of the Leaves, and the hue of which is a little bluer. (487.) Green of the leaves lighter, yellower than upon a White ground. Pink fresher, purer, more velvety, than upon a Ground of an agreeable effect, from harmony of On a Blue Ground. (488.) Green lighter, more golden than upon a White ground. Pink yellower, less fresh than upon a White ground. SHMOLEA GXFORD MUSEUM Although the green leaves do not exactly produce a bad effect upon the ground, yet the roses lose much of their freshness, and the appearance of the ensemble is not agreeable. On a Violet Ground. (489.) Green yellower, clearer than upon a White ground. Pink faded. If the ground does not injure the Green of the leaves, then it injures the pink so much that it is not agreeable. IV.-BORDER OF SIX INCHES IN HEIGHT, REPRESENTING WHITE FLOWERS, SUCH AS CHINA ASTER, POPPY, LILY OF THE VALLEY, ROSES; SOME RED FLOWERS, SUCH AS THE ROSE, WALLFLOWER; SOME SCARLET OR ORANGE, SUCH AS THE POPPY, POMEGRANATE, TULIP, BIGNONIA; AND VIOLET FLOWERS, SUCH AS LILAC, VIOLETS; AND TULIPS STRIPED WITH YELLOW, WITH GREEN LEAVES. (490.) This border was remarkable for the pleasing association of the flowers among themselves, and of these flowers with their leaves. In spite of the multiplicity of colours, and of the hues of red and violet, there was no disagreeable juxtaposition, except that of a pomegranate next to a rose; but the contact only took place at a point, and the two flowers were in very different positions. Black Ground. (491.) The ensemble brighter than upon a White ground. Orange finer, brighter than upon a White ground. White the same. Green clearer, redder. The roses and the violets gain nothing from the Red-Brown Ground. (492.) Ensemble brighter than upon a White ground. Whites and Greens effective. An orange flower, contiguous to the ground, for the reason explained above (460.), acquires a brilliancy which it has not upon a White ground. Orange Ground. (493.) Ensemble more sombre, more tarnished than upon a White ground. Orange flowers and roses tarnished, lilacs bluer. Yellow Ground. (494.) The orange flower contiguous to the ground evidently loses some of its vivacity, in comparison with the White ground. The Whites are less beautiful than upon a Red ground. The Greens are bluer than upon a White ground. The roses become bluer, the violets acquire some brilliancy. The whole effect is good, because there is but little Yellow in the border, and but little Orange contiguous to the ground. Green Ground. (495.) The ground being purer than the Green of the leaves had not a good effect relatively to these latter. On the other hand, the Green in the border was in too small a quantity to produce a harmony of analogy, and it had not sufficient Red for a harmony of contrast. Blue Ground. (496.) The Oranges have a good effect; the Greens were reddened as well as the Whites. The roses and the lilacs lost some of their freshness. This arrangement did not produce a good effect, because there was not sufficient Yellow or Orange in the border. Violet Ground. (497.) Orange more beautiful than upon a White ground Roses and violets especially less beautiful than upon a White ground. A mediocre assortment. Grey Ground. (498.) As might be easily premised, this ground was extremely favourable to all the colours of the border, without exception. (499.) The examination we have made of four sorts of borders has this twofold advantage, that it enables us to verify exactly the conclusions which are directly deducible from the law of simultaneous contrast of colours, besides presenting to us the effects which we could scarcely have deduced from the same law without the aid of experiment. I now speak 1o. Of the influence which a complementary exercises by its quality of luminousness upon the colour to which it is added (460.). 2o. Of the very different manner in which not only different people, but even the same person, will judge of the colours of a more or less complex pattern having a certain number of colours, according to the attention the spectator gives at a certain moment to the different parts (483.). (500.) The examination which we have made of the border of roses with their leaves (No. 3), and especially of that of the border of flowers varied in their forms and hues (No. 4), makes us feel the necessity of a knowledge of the law of contrast to assort the colours of objects represented upon a border, with the colour which serves as a ground to them. The examination of the border (No. 4) has well demonstrated experimentally that this assortment presents the more difficulty in proportion as we wish to have the grounds of a purer tint, and the objects we intend placing upon them more varied in colour. Besides, in demonstrating the good effect of grey, as a ground for these latter objects, it has furnished the example of a fact which may be deduced from the law, and which is in perfect accordance with what practice has long since taught us. |