CONTINUOUS BLOOM IN AMERICA 



rare, deep-red Oriental Poppy, Pyrethrum, hybrid, and 

 some Phlox Drummondii. Another desirable red is 

 the garnet Globe Amaranth and Agrostemma coronaria. 

 The darker reds will harmonize with everything. 

 Many hired gardeners need to have this subject of 

 reds and yellows brought forcibly to their attention, 

 especially when they must order the seeds and group 

 the plants. 



Rarely do our gardens contain sufficient white. 

 Use white fteely; it seems to bring out all the other 

 colors with it. 



Where all colors are admitted, use also pink and 

 blue plentifully: dark red and yellow more sparingly, 

 except in beds of yellow or red. Let the red bed be 

 relieved with sufficient white and a little blue. In the 

 yellow bed have also some blue and lavender. To the 

 blue bed give some light yellow and white. 



In the pink bed, use white, some lilac tones, and a 

 touch of garnet. 



COLOR STANDARD 



There is a great demand among gardeners for a 

 color chart to guide us in our description of flowers. 

 The need is for the revision of existing names indi- 

 cating the various tones of color according to a recog- 

 nized standard. The question is whether the various 

 horticultural societies and the trade as a whole will 

 consent to recognize such a classification. A chart of 

 "Color Standards" has been recently made, and it 



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