Gaudy colours in gardens

Secondly. The contrast produced amidst the more gaudy colouring, by the sort of repose that the eye derives, sometimes from white flowers, as of the jasmine, the passion-flower, and other plants, whose leaves are dark and not glossy: sometimes the same repose is produced by a mass of light foliage, at a little distance, appearing without shape or colour, as in a bed of mignionette.