lxxxviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Not loDg since a most admirable chart, containing more than 1,450 

 shades of colour between white and black, was published in France at the 

 instance of the French Chrysanthemum Scciety, the price in England 

 being £1 Is. net, and by it it is now possible to exactly recognise or 

 describe to a friend or purchaser at a distance the precise colour of any 

 possible rlower. You may have met with an Azalea, for instance, which 

 greatly strikes your fancy ; you take out your chart and match its shade, 

 and describe it to your friend or your nurseryman as, " Colour : Apricot, 

 p. 53, shade 3," and he turns to his chart and sees exactly what it is you 

 want or describe. Or you want to make someone understand the exact 

 shade of a rose in the way of " Andersoni," and you need only say, "Rosy 

 pink, p. 118, shade 4," and your correspondent turns to his chart and sees 

 in a moment exactly what it is you want to describe. Or a nurseryman, 

 having raised a new variety, can by simply quoting " Colour Chart, p. — , 

 shade — ," exactly represent to his customers the colour-beauty of his new 

 introduction. 



The Council recognising both the excellence and the usefulness of 

 this chart, the idea at once occurred, Cculd it not be adopted as an 

 International Standard, so that all lovers of flowers all over the world 

 could accurately and exactly describe to one another (no matter how far 

 away or speaking what language) the colour and shade of any particular 

 flower they refer to ? There seemed no other difficulty than the somewhat 

 prohibitive ccst of £1 Is. net. But difficulties only exist to be overcome, 

 and by undertaking to be responsible for a very large number, the Society 

 is now in a position to offer this Chart to its Fellows at the reduced cost 

 of 14s. 6c7., for which price it can be obtained at the Society's Offices, 

 Vincent Square, or it can be sent free by post for 15s. ; but in all cases 

 a cheque or postal order must be sent beforehand. 



This Chart will, of course, be found vastly useful for many other 

 purposes ; for example, a lady wishing to match a certain shade has only 

 to refer her dressmaker to such and such a colour on p. — , shade — , and 

 it can be infallibly matched. An artist wishing to describe the colour of 

 the sky on a certain sundown, can do so exactly by reference to the chart. 

 And in many other like ways it must prove generally useful, containing 

 as it does every possible shade of colour between black and white. 



The Council hope that Fellows will avail themselves freely of this 

 offer, as unless a very large number of copies are purchased a great loss 

 will accrue to the Scciety. 



33. MONOGRAPH ON FUNGOID PESTS. 



The attention of Fellows is directed to a handsome volume recently 

 published by the Society on Fungoid Pests of Cultivated Plants, by 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, V.M.H. It consists of 280 pages of letterpress, and is 

 illustrated with 24 coloured plates, containing figures of 360 different 

 fungoid attacks, and 23 woodcuts. The work is divided under the 

 headings of Pests of the Flower Garden, of Vegetables, of Fruit, of the 

 Vinery and Stove, of the Ornamental Shrubbery, of Forest Trees, and of 

 Field Crops. These are followed by a Chapter on Fungicides, which 



