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August 12, 1916 



AIM IM O U IM OE IVI E: IM 



Commencing December, 1916, I shall disseminate 



Orimson Oarna-bi^n D^ris 



Awarded A, C, S certificate at St. Louis, January, 1916, scoring 88 points after being 

 in the boxes on the trip 48 hours. This will give some idea of its keeping and shipping 

 qualities. Habit erect, producing an abundance of high-grade flowers on long stiff stems, 

 fine color, calyx very seldom splits. 



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COLOR STANDARDIZATION. 



Color appeals to every human being 

 and belongs ot right to all who love 

 joy-giving knowledge. Color discrimi- 

 nation has its value in every walk of 

 life and in all art and science. Let us 

 classify and name colors on simple, in- 

 telligible lines, before the professional 

 experts get hold of the subject find try 

 to lock it up as supposed occult knowl- 

 edge, and quarrel among themselves 

 over names; for color is new as a sci- 

 ence, though old as an art. Every sci- 

 ence must be international for its de- 

 velopment, and a natural science, es- 

 pecially, can only do its best work 

 thTough links between naturalists of 

 diverse nations. It is good news that 

 Dr. Ridgway has agreed to promote a 

 color chart adapted to wider use. I 

 believe any color chart that was not 

 based on the Ridgway method v/ould 

 be retrograde. Yet the Frenchmen f f 

 the Repertoire des Couleurs are emi- 

 nently right (1) in recognizing the im- 

 portance of international work; (2) in 

 giving the origin of the names 

 adopted; (3) in their fine feeling for 

 color names, the EInglish names being 

 often very inferior, while the Ijatin na- 

 tions have usually wisely imitated 

 French names; (4) in qiioting ex- 

 amples of colors (though too delusive- 

 ly, for general use, from the vegetable 

 world); and (5) in laying down the 

 rule that a color is best tested or, ex- 

 hibited by being surrounded with 

 white, though it must be admitted that 

 for the convenience of a small book of 

 reference, where color samples are 

 crowded, the grey ground of Ridgway's 

 may be justified as more restful to the 

 eye. Color nomenclature should be 

 fixed after comparisons between the 

 work of French, Italian, Spanish and 

 German color students, and the names 

 they select, as well as of American and 

 English; and, if possible, we should 

 consult a few of the many cultured peo- 

 ple of Japan (who all learn English, 

 in spite of our irrational spelling). I 

 believe Dr. Ridgway to be a true 



American in fine intellectual sym- 

 pathies and appreciation of the needs 

 and capacities of ordinary mortals; 

 and we should ask him to add some 

 helpful pages to his admirable letter- 

 press. Some alternative names should 

 be given in a prefatory classified in- 

 dex, even if synonyms are ruled ob- 

 jectionable in the body of the book. 

 Brief notes on the origin of names are 

 needed, and also such historical appel- 

 lations as "Chevreul's type blue," and 

 if possible all the forty of Saccordo's 

 Latin names. There is no more de- 

 lightful hobby than a collection of 

 colors, which can be made with not 

 only paints or pastels, but also with 

 scraps of colored paper from wrappers 

 on merchandise, disused sample books, 

 and small pieces of cotton or silk-col- 

 ored cloth, cut into uniform shape. The 

 best model is the Ridgway chart, three 

 columns of seven colors each to a page 

 (omitting black and white); and a 

 skeleton outline ot the rectangular 

 spaces can be easily pencilled in by 

 means of a cardboard stencil. Oppo- 

 site each of the fifty-three pages space 

 should be left for entering notes of ex- 

 amples. Thus this individual color 

 chart will have the Scarlet Pimpernel 

 (Anagallis arvensis) and the two tones 

 of the Dandelion duly noted; also the 

 Purple Clover (Trifolium pratense), the 

 best example of Ridgway's Eupatorium 

 Purple, XXXVIII., 67", V-R; in the 

 French Repertory "Deep carmine vio- 

 let," 174, tone 1. The color primuline 

 yellow will be referred to the yellow of 

 the wasp. To go further afield for ex- 

 amples, the Mariposa Lily (Calachortus 

 marcrocarpus), the loveliest of British 

 Columbian flowers, is Hay's lilac, 

 XXXVIII., 63", R. v., tone d— perhaps 

 better given in the French chart: "Vio- 

 let heliotrope." 188, tope 2. The inside 

 of the Maynard Plum is Pomegranate 

 purple, Ridgway, XII., 71, V. R. R.. i; 

 or in the French chart, 16.5, purple gar- 

 net, tone 1, or reddish-purple, 161, tone 

 1 (Saccardo's purpureus). The pro- 

 duction of a universal and easily un- 

 derstood color guide would do many 

 things for us, especially when we 

 should become familiar with it through 

 a little color-testing practice. Not the 

 least of the benefits resulting would be 

 the help in visualising from descrip- 

 tion the floral treasures found by such 

 travellers as Mr. E. H. Wilson and Mr. 

 Reginald Farrer. — D. F. Kerr, in The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, London. 



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