COLOUR 
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help to decide these knotty points. For if we 
learn to know a certain flower as of a certain 
colour, we shall soon get out of the habit of 
using all and sundry terms to express one 
colour while meaning another. It is only a 
matter of association after all. To us a shade 
described as “ American Beauty ” means no- 
thing. In America the smallest child knows it 
for a brilliant rose red. Simply because the 
American Beauty rose is the flower beloved 
of all Americans, and is seen the winter 
through in masses in every shop window 
and in every house, till the colour has become 
so associated with the name that the name is 
now standardised, as much as “ primrose ” 
colour is generally known here. 
Always remember that the simpler the 
scheme of colour the more effective it is. 
That clear blues should be kept together, 
and that grey or purple blues must not be 
mixed with them. 
That too much white in a border looks 
spotty, and looks best in a breadth by itself. 
That the foliage of such plants as funkias 
and day lilies shows up the vivid colourings of 
red flowers, and that grey can be used with 
much softening effect between two colours that 
might otherwise clash. 
