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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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1918 



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Color Harmony in Planting 

 Rhododendrons 



Two Landscape Architects Reply to the Problem of 



a Second Inquiror 



Color Groupings of Rhododendrons 



THE inquiry by Mr. W. E. Davis, 

 Jr., in The Garden Magazine for 

 February, would easily open up the 

 whole question of color descrip- 

 tions of flowers, but without going on to that 

 interesting question, I will offer the help 

 that is asked for. The list he gives can 

 be divided into four groups; the whites, the 

 crimson, the pinks, and the lavender or 

 magenta shades. 



(0 White: Calawbiense album, the purest white of all. 



Album ilegans, white with a touch of lavender, or pink; spots 

 are dull yellow. 



Boule de Neige, white, (this is distinctly dwarfish in habit). 



Note: Spots and a blotch of color appear in the throat of 

 all these Rhododendrons, but they will not be taken into f 

 account in this color description, except in the one case above 

 noted where they are very noticeable. 



(2) Crimson: (This group includes crimsons and scarlets; 

 there is no consistent distinction made between these two 

 colors as commonly used). 



Atrosanguineum, clear crimson. 



Alexander Dancer, light scarlet. 



Mrs. Charles S. Sargent, crimson, lighter than Atrosan- ' 

 guineum. 



Charles Dickens, crimson, lighter than Atrosanguineum. 



H. W. Sargent, very clear crimson, darker than Atrosan- 

 guineum. 



H. H. Hunnewell, dark rich crimson. 



Caractacus, dark crimson. 



(3) Pink: Ignatius Sargent (the Boss), deep pink, (clear 

 color). 



Henrietta Sargent, rose pink. 



Roseum elegans (true), clear deep pink. 



(4) Lavenders, or those showing some magenta tinge. 

 Lady Armstrong, pale rose, or a rosy pink. 

 Everestianum, pale lavender, or light lilac. 



Catawbiense grandiflorum, mauve, purple shade fading to 

 lavender. 



Roseum elegans (false), magenta lilac. 



Madame Smiis Rhododendron I have never come across and 

 so have omitted it from this list. 



Probably no one who is interested in the 

 colors of Rhododendrons will agree to my 

 list entirely, and therefore a few explanations 

 may serve to lessen the disagreements. In 

 the first place, words used to describe colors 

 mean one thing to one person, and a difFerent 

 shade to another person. By crimson, I 

 mean that color which is sold as crimson to 

 the artist, crimson lake or Alizarin crimson. 

 Scarlet is close to crimson, as represented 

 by the artist's color scarlet lake. Several 

 of the most careful nursery catalogues de- 

 scribe Atrosanguineum as dark scarlet, but 

 I have compared the flower with the artists' 

 crimson, and it corresponds with that color; 

 so it is better to call it "crimson" than to 

 call is scarlet modified by the adjective 

 "dark." In using the word "pink" for R. 

 Ignatius Sargent, I mean the color which F. 

 Schuyler Mathews gives on his color chart as 

 "pink." The pink Dogwood is of this color 

 running from light to darker shades of the 

 same color. It is a clear color with no touch 

 of the purple or magenta in it. Henrietta 

 Sargent is not a clear pink of this class, but 

 it has not enough of the lavender in it to 

 relegate it to the class 4. Unfortunately the 

 the word "pink" is more loosely applied to 

 flowers than any other color, it seems to me. 

 There are two Roseum elegans as sold by 

 nurseries. The one I have called magenta 

 lilac will seem to some on account of the use 

 of the word "magenta" to be of a very 

 undesirable color, but if I describe it as 

 crimson-pink with a touch of the purple, it 

 loses the stigma that has come to be attached 

 to the word "magenta." Some nurserymen 

 avoid the term magenta, because it lessens 

 the sales of the unfortunate plant to which 

 its name is applied; and so a good deal of 

 confusion is caused by the many different 

 combinations of words used to describe 

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