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they harmonize. Near brick buildings, or buildings painted with 

 bright colors, care must be exercised in selecting shrubs with colored 

 flowers. White flowers are always safe and can be used to help in 

 giving other flowers an appropriate setting. A plentiful use of the 

 different greens or ;i mixture of many colors is also safe. It is only 



FIG. 62. A chart showing the appropriate c-lor combinations for hlg'ily colored flowers. 

 Colors immediately adjacent to one another on the chart, or tho.^o opposite or nearly 

 opposii-' one another, are apt to harmonize and are therefore safe to use together. 

 Those at right angles to one another are liable to be discordant, and should not be 

 ii^-d together by those not thoroughly familiar with color harmonies and the possi- 

 bilities of color combinations. .B=blue, G=green, O=orange, .R=red, T 7 =violet, 

 T=vellow. 



when one or two colors are selected for use in quantity that danger 

 of lack of harmony arises. 



The reason that white is a safe color to use is because the human 

 eye can observe it with least fatigue. It is composed of a mixture 

 of the colors of the rainbow. Theoretically, each of the rainbow 

 colors can be combined with some oth Q r color and produce white, 

 although in practice it is a dirt}' white or light gray. Two colors 



