. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . odified yellow. Viola tricoloris cyanic; it includes a strong yellow along with intensepurple and violet-u
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . odified yellow. Viola tricoloris cyanic; it includes a strong yellow along with intensepurple and violet-ultramarine flowers. The genusZinnia is xanthic, it includes no true yellow flower butmany which range through aU reds into cyanic genus Rosa is cyanic; its flowers range from purered to magenta-crimson, develop a strong, modifiedyellow, fuse yellow with crimson, but never approachthe xanthic gold-orange. The genus Chrysanthemum isxanthic; its flowers include all yellows, skip pure orangeand scarlet, and range from scarlet-red to cyanic red-crimson. Species belonging to the cyanic group invariably pro-duce white flowers which have an albino origin. Spe-cies of the xanthic order produce white flowers whichare not albinos but which invariably displace flowers ofsome strong, pure xanthic hue. For example, geraniumsare white, red, scarlet, and pink, but never gold-orangeor golden yellow. Carnations are white, red, and car-dinal-red, but never scarlet, or orange. Chrysanthe-. XXIX. Cranberry-picking in a New Jersey bog. COLOR COLUMNEA 833 mums are yellow, white, and pink, but never orange orscarlet. Dahlias are scarlet, red, crimson-red, and evenpure yellow, but never pure gold-orange, or orange. It is perfectly evident from the foregoing examplesthat the range in a given genus, or species, is limited towhat may be termed the swing of a pendulum uponthe chromatic scale (.Fig. 1038). The swing may extendover a quarter of the dial, rarely it docs more. If ithappens that two
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