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way well bred. Where, however, it is issue of a 

 yellow or a red type-flower, then I think we are 

 justified in suspecting anaemia, for yellow or red 

 must pass through blue before it can healthily 

 and with all warrant emerge as white. There are 

 no leaps in progressive evolution ; soundness is 

 sequence. 



Now in no instance, I think, have I been in- 

 fluenced by the unknown presence of yellow or of 

 red as I have by that of white and sometimes 

 of blue flowers. Why should this be : why 

 should the influence of white be more remarkable 

 than that of yellow? Is it not probable that in 

 special cases the human organism is in pro- 

 nouncedly sympathetic accord with the organism 

 of flowers, in some such way as there is sympa- 

 thetic attunement between transmitter and receiver 

 in wireless telegraphy ? Is it not possible that 

 some natures are attuned to blue and white 

 flowers, and will ignore yellow or red ones, while 

 other natures are in accord with yellow or red 

 flowers and are unresponsive to blue and white 

 ones? I know of a judge at local flower shows 

 who invariably, and without much demur, gave 

 first prize to the table decoration containing 

 scarlet ; and if such a decoration was mainly 



