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nevertheless so appropriate that it, or the white of 

 colorless blossoms, ought to figure in the majority 

 of compositions. 



Flower color, which must include white for the 

 sake of phraseological covenience, is employed in 

 two ways to emphasize individual form and to 

 obliterate it, the latter by means of solid sheets of 

 bloom. For example, in a spring picture of reddish 

 orange crown imperial and white Phlox subulata, 

 form is brought out in the one and quite lost in the 

 other. The reddish orange is a selected color note, 

 but it never lets you forget the bells that make the 

 crown. Nor is it by any means so big a note as the 

 green or the white. This combination was ar- 

 ranged because the crown imperial has height a 

 rare thing in early spring. 



