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other; and turning to a notebook I give here the colors of these 

 according to the two color charts in most frequent use, Ridg- 

 way's and the French Repertoire des Couleurs. The first quince 

 blossom examined was of medium size. Ridgway's color for this 

 was sea-shell pink to rose dore; the French, plate Q5, all tones, 

 through plates 73 and 74, and touched with the color on plate 

 108 — a flower of many hues, truly a shaded flower, and beau- 

 tiful beyond description on its bough in May. 



The flowers of number two were very small and grew in tufts: 



— Ridgway chart, coral red; French, 75-4 to 76-3. Nmnber 

 three was a medium sized flower of whose color Ridgway's 

 jasper red gave a near though not exact idea; French, 80-3. 

 In this quince the flowers grew in bunches along the stem, two 

 to four together. Number four was a fairly large quince blossom : 



— Ridgway's, coral red; French, 75-76. Five was a glori- 

 ously colored flower immense in size for this type of bloom, 

 growing on tall, strong bushes: — Ridgway, geranium pink to 

 begonia rose; French, 106 all tones to 121 all tones. This is a 

 magnificent quince when in bloom, indeed the bushes are superb 

 at all times; the foliage with its yoimger madder-brown leaflets 

 is always good to see. The last quince blossom of this list was 

 quite different from those already named : number six was white 

 like an apple blossom, but touched with that charming hue 

 known in Ridgway as hermosa pink, and in the French chart 

 (plate 118), all shades. 



If these charts were before the reader, if he could follow these 

 notes with those delicious color-books beside this, he would 

 perceive the remarkable range of color in the flowers of this one 

 shrub. Choenomeles is the new botanical name for this group of 

 plants; and besides C. japonica, which is the quince we used to 

 call Pyrus or Cijdonia Japonica, there is C. maulei, which an- 

 swers in the descriptions of its orange-colored flowers to the 



