102 **3 ^oir^aoARnEjjt COMPANION. 



green color, which, on being expanded and exposed to the 

 atmospheric air, become red, purple, yellow ', or any color 

 natural to them, during which time it undergoes many 

 changes. Flowers are also variable in their parts, as in most 

 cases we find the anthers, which contain the pollen, are of a 

 yellow color, and the styles, which support them, of a hyali- 

 nus, or water color. The flower leaves, or petals, are also, 

 in many cases, mottled or variegated, as in the Geranium, 

 Balsam, Camellia, and many others. 



In taking a general view of the colors of plants, it will be 

 found that white is the most common in the petals of spring 

 flowers, as the Snowdrop, Wood anemone, Cherry, Plum, 

 &c. ; water color in the styles and stigma of flowers ; yellow 

 in the heads or anthers of flowers, and in the petals of most 

 compound flowers, as the Sunflower, Coreopsis, Hawkweed, 

 and most autumnal flowers ; black is most common in seeds 

 and the bark of roots ; blue, red, and violet, in the petals of 

 summer flowers, as the Rose, Larkspur, and many native 

 plants ; red is also very common in acid fruits and berries ; 

 and green predominates in leaves and in the calyx of plants. 



In closing the present article, it is proper to add, that the 

 color of flowers varies from their natural or primitive, accord- 

 ing to the location they are placed in ; and by observation it 

 will be found, that all kinds of fulgid flowers, as the Double 

 Lychnis, Roses, or any high colored ones, require to be ex- 

 posed to the sun and air: shade generally causes most flowers 

 to lose their deep colors, except those of a pure white, as the 

 Lily of the Valley, and those which naturally grow in shaded 

 locations. 



ART. 3. Double Flowers. 



Double flowers are exemplified in the Double Dahlia, 

 Stock-gilliflower, Rose, and Camellia; they are, in most 

 cases, the result of luxuriance in culture, or other causes, by 

 which the organs of generation are transformed into gaudy 

 petals, or flower leaves ; consequently, such flowers cannot 



