MATERIAL REVIEW.
PAINTS AND STAINS.
MESSRS. CARSON AND SONS have sent us some shade cards for review showing a number of their paints. While I have no doubt of their excellent quality as preservatives, I cannot say that there seems much that is noteworthy in the colours, either of their water-paint, muraline, anti-corrosion paint, varnish stains or hard gloss finishing paint. The blues and reds seem particularly deficient in all the paints : a hard gloss finishing paint, for instance, which is dull orange-brown is called by them Venetian red. The light, middle and dark greens they recommend for garden seats are all of a rather unpleasant, yellowy colour. There are no yellows shown at all. The varnish stains are of the ordinary description, " pitch- pine," " light oak," " rosewood," &c. Messrs. Carson do not seem to have gone in for the very charming wood stains that can be had nowadays in bright blue, silver-grey and cherry colour.
There is among all these samples one colour that struck me as attractive : that is, a bright blue muraline of the kind that used to be known as " powder blue." It is a colour such as we still see sometimes used in Wales and Wiltshire for " blue- washing " the outsides of cottages. On the card it appears
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