Strawberries.—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.
556. TO PAINT FLOWERS
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.—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.—Sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries.
Roses.—A light tint of pure carmine, over which another equally light of Peruvian blue; proceed with the darker shades of carmine of the best sort. In the darkest part of the flower add a little indigo to give a roundness. If the seeds are seen lay on gamboge, shaded with gall-stone.