Solomon's TRivals 105 



This brings us to the consideration of chromule, 

 Avhich is the name given in general to all colors except 

 green in the plant. These colors are more or less 

 present always. In early spring the young leaves of 

 the oak are pink and bronze ; those of the birch are 

 purple ; other trees show in their fresh leafage scarlet 

 and yellow, almost as gay as autumn dyes. 



The petals of the flower, however, assert tlieir 

 claim to the chromule, and appear in the most 

 brilliant colors, which are stored up in the tissues. 

 All the hues of the rainbow, and all the shades 

 produced by the mingling of these, belong to 

 corollas. 



"The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue, 

 And polyanthus of unnumbered d^'es." 



Here we stand before some of nature's deepest 

 mysteries and most marvelous chemistry. Out of 

 the same soil — light, air, moisture, heat — the cardinal 

 flower draws its flaming scarlet, and the violet its 

 heavenly blue ; the lily secure*s its cup of pearl in 

 the same laboratory from apparently the same con- 

 ditions that gave the golden rod its yellow plume. 

 Look at a tiger lily ; it is orange, spotted with brown ; 

 here is a rose streaked red, white, pink ; here is a 

 morning-glory painted in white, rose, blue, purple ; 

 behold this painted cup, the sharpest contrasts of 



