planted too near the Chrysanthemums, excepting in front of the white variety, as the general colours of these two kinds of flowers are too similar to harmonize agreeably; but where the Purple Aster can be planted near the Yellow Chrysanthemum, and vice versa, the effect of both colours is heightened. In planting flowers, an indiscriminate mixture of colours is generally bad, although it may be admitted in some instances. Nature seldom confuses her colours, and we should, in arranging them, endeavour to imitate her operations, and let the dyes in bright suffusion flow, That now with gold empyreal seem to glow, |