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ized horticultural varieties, such as the Japanese 

 maples and varicolored shrubs. 



Among a number of brilliantly colored plants 

 all clamoring for attention, an accent plant will 

 have to be very powerful indeed in order to make 

 its presence felt. Needless to say, a scheme of this 

 sort is entirely out of place in everyday surround- 

 ings. 



As a rule it is much more satisfactory to restrict 

 the hues and intensities, using differing values for 

 accent purposes, and leaving the color contrasts 

 for unusual situations and effects. 



Colors may be divided into two classes, the pri- 

 mary colors, red, yellow, and blue, from which all 

 other colors are made, and the complementary 

 colors, often called secondaries. Complementary 

 colors are those which have nothing in common, 

 giving the greatest possible color contrasts. 

 Every color has its complement in the color most 

 unlike it. 



The complement of any primary color is a sec- 

 ondary which is composed of equal visual amounts 

 of the other two primaries. Conversely, every 

 secondary color has as its complement the primary 

 which does not enter into its composition. In the 

 color cycle (Fig. 20) the complementary colors 



