COLOR AND ITS COMBINATIONS 
T HERE is no tabulation which can give 
all that there is to be given — or 
learned — about color. Perhaps it is not to 
be “ given ” under any circumstances, for 
eyes see so differently, and people feel so 
differently. Yet that there should be some 
standard there can be no question, for the 
most riotously flowery garden has very 
little real beauty if its colors are inhar- 
monious and badly selected. 
Flowers, of course, select for themselves, 
and sometimes they disarrange all of the 
carefullest color schemes in the world by 
dressing themselves up unexpectedly. Per- 
haps the fashions change in flower-land as 
unceremoniously as they do with us ; not all 
follow them, to be sure, but there are some 
that may: you never can tell. Certain 
flowers, however, keep within certain lines 
— and this makes it possible for us to gov- 
ern things, within a reasonable limit. The 
thing that is likely to be forgotten, it 
seems to me, is that color in the garden is 
