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white ; centre sometimes buff, sometimes yellowish." Rivers 

 says, " it is not yellow, as was first supposed, but it is of a 

 fine creamy white." Parsons says it is a " fine creamy white, 

 tinted with rose." Buist says it was first represented as being 

 "a fine sulphur yellow, and figured as such, but it proves to 

 be a creamy white, and when just open in cloudy weather, 

 of a canary color." Another florist calls it blush ; another, 

 incarnate, and so on, until it becomes like "Joseph's coat." 

 Take another example. Neither of the above high authori- 

 ties gives us a correct idea of Tea Goubault. One calls it 

 bright rose color, and another rosy blush inclining to yellow 

 in the centre ; while in fact its peculiar appearance and dis- 

 tinctive character is due to the decided difference in the color 

 of the upper and under surfaces of the petals. 



It is to be regretted that in floral as well as other descrip- 

 tions we have no fixed nomenclature of colors. The primi- 

 tive colors yellow and red are rarely met with in roses, and 

 the blue has yet to be discovered. The various modifications 

 of color used with so little discrimination in describing roses 

 range themselves under general heads somewhat as follows : 



Green. — The green rose, but one variety. 



White. — Creamy, yellowish and blush white. 



Blush. — Light, rosy, incarnate or flesh, lavender. 



Flksh. — Blush, incarnate. 



Yellow. — Sulphur, cream, straw, canary, orange, lemon, 

 fawn, buff, saffron. 



Pink. — Light, deep, rosy, blush, flesh, salmon, copper. 



Red. — Light, deep, rosy, carmine, copper. 



Violet. — Crimson, purple. 



Scarlet. — Crimson. 



Crimson. — Light, deep, violet, lilac, purplish, scarlet, car- 

 mine. 



Purple. — Light, deep, rosy, bluish, crimson, violet. 



Rose. — Pale, red, salmon, carmine, pink. 



Lilac. — Rosy, crimson. 



If we could select certain objects in nature of constant 

 color with which to compare the choice roses, or if we should 

 select a certain number of well known and established roses 



