. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 48g The American Florist. Dec. 22^ puzzle half a dozen people to decide upon what color it really was. Probably it would suggest pink. The Buttercup car- nation suggests yellow, the Grace Wilder is uncompromisingly pink, they look fairlj- well together, but the paler the Wilder the better, and no thanks to ab- stract yellow and pink for the harmony. I beg to say in conclusion, that theory has less to do with color harmony in an artist's picture to-day than tough and bitter experience. We learn best by practice. Pl
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 48g The American Florist. Dec. 22^ puzzle half a dozen people to decide upon what color it really was. Probably it would suggest pink. The Buttercup car- nation suggests yellow, the Grace Wilder is uncompromisingly pink, they look fairlj- well together, but the paler the Wilder the better, and no thanks to ab- stract yellow and pink for the harmony. I beg to say in conclusion, that theory has less to do with color harmony in an artist's picture to-day than tough and bitter experience. We learn best by practice. Place the Kioto chrysanthe- mum beside your pinkest rose and after looking at them for five full minutes you will want to throw them both out of the window. I am glad of this opportunity to define at length and to qualify my rather sweeping assertion, but it was a safe one to make, and I take it the reader of the American Florist prefers that I should hedge about the pit-falls of color in its complexity and clear a straight pathway for the management of color when it is pure and simple. F. Schuyler Kd. Am. Florist:—In reading "Rose Notes from England" in the Florist of Nov. 10, I was disappointed in reading the description of this rose, and if in growing it here it proves as the writer has prophesied, we shall have cause to thank him for his timely warning. But having kept in touch with the new roses in Europe for the past two years, I had considered this rose the leader of the new H. P's. in England and France, while Germany seems to be banking every- thing on Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. In the rose notes quoted from we are informed by the writer that the London Crystal Palace rose show held in July the past season was the best show ever held by the society, the size, quality, finish and color of the blooms in all the winning stands distinctly showing prog- ress. But at this beautiful show, con- taining the standard as well as the new varieties, he did not i
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