faintest shade of difference in these colors, while considerable differ- 
ences in greens, blues and violets are almost imperceptible. 
Although the time has not come to advise about the next step, I 
would like to propose that Club Members using the chart should 
keep in mind the possibility of supplementing the Ridgway with 
further color scales which, in combination, would make a complete 
chart for garden use. Obviously the cost of such an undertaking would 
be far less than to hire experts to begin again at the beginning, and it 
seems more sensible when one remembers that the Ridgway chart 
is well adapted to our needs as far as it goes. In so doing the headway 
toward standardizing color which the Ridgway chart has gained among 
scientists would not be lost; the Garden Club of America could 
afford to throw the weight of its prestige on the Ridgway as the 
official standard, which would soon bring round the nurserymen in 
whom we are particularly interested; and at the same time it could 
encourage and even support the effort to make a supplementary 
chart in due course, with the full realization that no time and work 
was being lost. It is probable that any such supplementary chart 
could be made fairly complete in itself. And as it need by no means 
be such an ambitious undertaking as the Ridgway, it could sell for a 
much lower price and thus be within the reach of all. 
Meantime it is to be hoped that many of the members of the 
Garden Club of America will purchase and use Dr. Ridgway 's 
"Color Standards and Color Nomenclature." In case individuals do 
not care to buy the book, is it not possible for the Member Clubs to 
get a copy which could be sent around like any circulating club book? 
If each person will then make careful notes of flower color, I can 
easily imagine a most interesting and profitable club meeting devoted 
to comparing notes, which should all be carefully preserved with the 
criticisms for the information of the Committee on Color Charts of 
the Garden Club of America. 
Lastly, it is quite within the realm of the possible that we may 
learn in this way as is possible in no other, the answer to the question 
that we often put to ourselves when visiting distant gardens in 
America or Europe, "That flower is not at all the same color in my 
garden. What is the matter?" If we can determine that flowers tend 
definitely to known variations of color in different localities and 
climates, we shall not only help ourselves but possibly prove that 
amateur gardeners at need can put scientists to shame. 
Inquiries regarding the sale of "Color Charts and Color Nomenclature," by Dr. Robert Ridgway, 
should be addressed to Fletcher Steele, Chairman, Color Chart Committee, Garden Club of America 
7 Water Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 
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