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The flower has six petals and three transparent sepals. In its centre rises a pale-green cone surrounded by from eighteen to thirty stamens. Sap-green, yellow of various shades, orange-vermilion, and vague traces of some inimitable scarlet, are the colors curiously blended together within and without the grand cup-shaped corolla.
Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black. Changeable Silk. Red lead and masticot water, shaded with sap-green and verdigris. Another. Lake and yellow, shaded with lake and Prussian blue. Cloud Colour. Light masticot, or lake and white, shaded with blue verditer. Another. Constant white and Indian ink, and a little vermilion. Another.
And my Trials were made so many years ago, that I dare not trust my Memory for Circumstances, but will rather tell you, that in a noted Colour-shop, I brought them by Questions to confess to me, that they made their Sap-green much after the ways by our Botanist here mention'd.
Put unslacked lime in a well-glazed pan; cover it with pure water, and let it remain for one day. Then strain off the water. This water will change sap-green into blue. Blue. Dilute Saxon blue with water; or to the solution of litmus add distilled vinegar. Green. Dissolve verdigris in distilled water and add gum arabic. Or, dissolve sap-green in water and add gum. Red.
They did not dwell fondly upon the picture of the lofty, spreading boughs, with their waves of sap-green leafage stirring against the blue. They did not soften and glow this time, at the thought of how wholly one felt sure of God's goodness in these wonderful new mornings of spring.
Upper side, sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries mixed; under-side, white indigo and sap-green mixed, shaded with the same. Stalks. Sap-green and carmine, shaded with indigo. Rose-buds. A pale wash of carmine, shaded with a stronger wash of the same. Stalks and leaves, sap-green with a slight wash of carmine.
With the exception of the thin line of sand, over which the sap-green water rolled itself with a constant murmur and moan, the island seemed buried under one deep stratum of verdure. The noble bosom of the strait bore several dhows speeding in and out of the bay of Zanzibar with bellying sails.
Sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries; the stalk brown. Honeysuckles. Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre. The insides are to be shown by curling the leaves back at the ends, or by splitting them. The outsides, a thin wash of carmine and lake mixed, shaded with carmine indigo for the darkest shades. Stalks. Sap-green and carmine. Leaves.
For the marking liquid rub together in a small mortar five scruples of lunar caustic with one drachm of gum arabic, one scruple of sap-green and one ounce of rain water. For wetting the linen mix together one ounce of salt of soda, two ounces of boiling water, and a table-spoonful of powdered gum arabic. The proportion is an ounce of pearl-ash to half a pint of water.
White; draw it over with vermilion and lake, shaded with fine lake, heightened with red lead and masticot mixed, and then with white; stipple them with white and thin lead. Anemones. A thin wash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together. The stripes carmine, shaded with the same; indigo in the darkest parts, or stipple with it. Leaves.
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