COLOUR 
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clear colour without (if paint is used to define 
it exactly) any admixture of white — whereas 
“ pink ” is more opaque, or rose with some 
body colour mixed with it — cherry red being 
somewhat nearer red than rose. When, in 
old days, cherry-coloured ribbons were the 
fashion, surely they were nearer the colour of 
a ripe cherry of that date than the “ thick ” 
pink of an improved Yarrow. I cannot think 
of any herbaceous plant that exactly recalls 
cherry red. It is seen in carnations, in gladiolas, 
and in geraniums. Perhaps the ivy-leaved 
geranium Charles Turner will fit it definitely 
as a mind-picture. Rose colour is found in 
Godetia, and in mallow, or rather Lavatera, 
but to describe Aubrietia moerheimi as cc pale 
rose colour ” is absurd. It should be simply 
called pale pink, and is of a chalky quality of 
colour, just as forget-me-not (not the water- 
side variety) is also of a chalky quality of blue. 
Catalogues do not so often go wrong in 
descriptions of yellow — at least they give us 
some idea of what they mean to convey. 
Exception has been taken to the lavish use in 
them of the word golden as a description, it 
being held that gold is red, like gravel or sand. 
It is so in its crude state, and I cannot think 
of any flower the exact colour of a sovereign. 
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