Color and Its Combinations 9 
just the same as color anywhere else; and 
that it should, therefore, be handled just 
as carefully there as it would be in a room 
or on a dress. The fact that it is out- 
of-doors and thrown down in big splashes, 
with a sublime faith in luck to straighten 
out the discords, will not reconcile scarlet 
to maroon. Their bad language to each 
other will be quite as shocking to refined 
senses, and a great many more people will 
have to suffer from it than would be 
obliged to if it all happened in a less con- 
spicuous place. 
Even maroons and scarlets, however, 
may be made to dwell in peace and content, 
and at no great distance apart, either, if 
the right influence is brought to bear on 
each. It is a matter of “ attuning.” 
(Curious, by the way, how impossible it is 
not to speak of music and color in the same 
terms.) There is a simple way of deter- 
mining color relations which, if followed, 
will not only insure the garden against un- 
happy combinations, but will secure for it 
unusual color harmonies. A little dia- 
gram will help in making it clear. 
That there are three primary or funda- 
mental colors, we all know — red, yellow, 
