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Taking another family, we find the same rule 

 proved : the chrysanthemum is yellow, red and 

 white, with blended hues, but never blue. In the 

 aster, which it resembles, we have, on the con- 

 trary, no yellow, but red, blue and white, com- 

 monly the red tinged with blue and the blue 

 showing a trace of red. In the sweet pea we 

 have blue and red but faint yellow ; in the azalea, 

 red and yellow, but no blue ; the canna and gladi- 

 olus exhibit various shades of red and yellow, 

 but no blue; in the cineraria we have a lively ex- 

 hibit of ruddy blues, but never a touch of yellow; 

 the geranium has several shades of red, with a 

 scarlet that indicates an admixture of yellow, but 

 there is no geranium which sows a hint of blue; 

 the bellis copies the color range of the aster, 

 hence it is not yellow. There are a few excep- 

 tions ; for instance, we have red, yellow and blue 

 in the columbines; and the violet is both yellow 

 and purple, the latter a mixture of red and blue; 

 but these exceptions are just enough to prove the 

 rule. 



If, however, we put flowers of unrelated 

 families into close touch with one another we 

 may perpetrate an inharmony now and then. 

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