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agreeable and more generally useful. Comple- 

 mentaries make one another more intense. If 

 we put the yellowish leaf of a nasturtium against 

 the magenta of a cineraria, the former becomes 

 more brilliant, and the latter more rich and 

 solemn. But if we put a crimson rose beside the 

 cineraria, and maybe, place a bunch of purple 

 grapes before them, we should have three re- 

 lated colors and a harmony, eliminating, of 

 course, the nasturtium leaf. If, on the contrary, 

 we were to put the cineraria into a combination 

 with a ripe orange and a bit of cloth of a bright 

 blue-green — secondaries, all — we should have 

 three semitones of a major chord, and semitones 

 make discord when they are not separated. 

 Flowers that have a tinge of blue, or red or yel- 

 low in common may be used safely. If it is, for 

 any reason, necessary to bring colors near one 

 another that are addicted to quarreling, use as 

 pale tints of them as possible, because white Is a 

 wonderful quieter and sweetener, and separate 

 them by green, or some medium tint. If they can 

 be kept a little apart. Almost any color justifies 

 Itself when It Is exuberant In quantity, yet the 

 finer and softer tones of It win us, in the end. 



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