The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:
[1760?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before recommended for the other Flowers) a proper Gradation of the Shades. The Buttons are Orange Colour, and the Style a pale Green. The Leaves and Stalk are a bluifh Green, with a Mixture of Sap-Green and Pruftian Blue fimfhing with Indico. The Orange-colour’d Ones are done in the fame Man¬ ner as the JNafturtion, in Page 74, fpotting the Infide of each Petal with In¬ dico towards its Bafe. The Buds, while young, are Green, turning to the Orange as they ripen, which makes a pleafing Variety in the Colouring. 2)8. Double STOCK. DOUBLE Stocks are a purplifh Crimfon, or variegated ^ith White and Crimfon. The Clutter of frnall Petals in the Middle are green, which diffufes itfelf faintly on the larger Ones, and affords a pleafing Diverfity. The Stalk and Leaves are a whitifh Green< ■ 3Q. APR I C A N. AFRICANS are either Yellow or Orange Cplou^. The Yellow Ones are to be done according to the Directions in Page 68, for the Yellow Parc of the Jonquil^-either pale or .deeper at Difcretion: And the Orange Co¬ lour Ones, as the Crown Imperial, Page 67. The Stalk and Leaves are a pleafant Green. 40. LARKSPUR. ARK S P UR S have, .all the Varieties, of the China After. and Stalk are a bluifh. Green. The Leaves 4-/. H o L Y H O C K. HHLYHOCKS vary, from the paleft Rofe Colours to the deepeft Crimfon. Some.are White,' which, in a Comppfition, afford an agree¬ able Contrail to the other Flowers, by their beautiful Shape ; but if reprefent- ed fingly, *tis eafily imagined, any of the other Colours are the mod intereft- ing : For which the Method laid down in Page 68, for Painting the Rpfe, will anfwer ; ufing the fame Colours deeper, according to Fancy, preferving a proportionable Shade of Colour, that the deep Shades n>ay not appear too fuddenly dark to drown the >effect of the pale Colours. The Stalk and Leaves are a pale Green, to be done with .Sap-Green mix’d with White, fpr the pale Colours ; the fame Colour, only lefs White, for the next Shade, and adding a little Indico for the darkeft Shades. PASSION