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too brilliant, serve well to emphasize a more dis- 

 tant point, and conversely flowers of delicate hue 

 must be closely viewed in order to produce any ef- 

 fect. In the problem chapter (Fig. 42) will 

 be seen a scheme of planting in which the di- 

 mensions appear to have been increased by the 

 use of bluer foliage hues as the planting recedes 

 from the spectator. 



Green is, of course, the most common and sat- 

 isfactory plant color, and it is of all gradations 

 and varieties, from the silvery green of the poplar 

 to the russet greens of the sedges, dark and light, 

 intense and neutral. The other plant colors may 

 be grouped under the primaries, red, yellow, and 

 blue. 



Under the reds will come pink, which is only a 

 light red, scarlet, crimson, and magenta; under 

 the yellows, greenish yellow, lemon yellow, and 

 orange yellow, as well as all the browns, which are 

 really deep shades of orange and yellow. The 

 blues vary from green-blue at one extreme to pur- 

 ples and violets at the other. It will be a simple 

 matter to group plant colorings approximately un- 

 der these heads. 



Each of the seasons has its own peculiar range 

 of colors, and therefore it should be easy, in look- 



