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nevertheless so appropriate that it, or the white of 
colorless blossoms, ought to figure in the majority 
of compositions. 
Flower color, which must include white for the 
sake of phraseological covenience, is employed in 
two ways—to emphasize individual form and to 
obliterate it, the latter by means of solid sheets of 
bloom. For example, in a spring picture of reddish 
orange crown imperial and white Phlox subulata, ° 
form is brought out in the one and quite lost in the 
other. The reddish orange is a selected color note, 
but it never lets you forget the bells that make the 
crown. Nor is it by any means so big a note as the 
green or the white. This combination was ar- 
ranged because the crown imperial has height—a 
rare thing in early spring. 
