COLOR 



pie back to purple, and the Forsythia runs the 

 scale of yellow. 



There is a fourth class still which does not come 

 into the same category, its autumn coloring being 

 the complementary of the spring; but this group- 

 ing by color rotation will be found to be of great 

 assistance to the landscape-designer. Trees, her- 

 baceous plants, and vines may be grouped in 

 the same fashion; for example, the Colorado blue 

 spruce, the Japanese ivy, and the willow. 



The season at which the major color interest is 

 most highly developed will determine the princi- 

 pal color usefulness of the plant. 



Color planting is of two sorts; one to produce 

 unity, and the other accent, though all accents 

 should be unified by balance of attractiveness if not 

 of similar color. The unity will be secured by the 

 predominance of either value or hue. Intensity 

 at its highest tends to differentiate colors, so when 

 the opposite of intensity or neutrality appears, that 

 is also a unifying element. 



Unification is only a matter of selection. 

 Shrubs may be chosen according to their values, 

 light, medium, or dark; or because yellow, red, or 

 blue appears as a modifying element in all. If 

 both one value and one hue are given preference, 



