. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. tones, purjilc, crimson, bright red, and solferino. Perhaps the most satisfactory varieties in point of color are: Chrysanthemum Flowered, Comet, Victoria, Triumph, Truflaut's Perfection, Mignon, and Betteridge's Quilled. These varieties which follow are particularly beautiful. Boston Florist's Bright Rose; a perfectly pure pink which we can only appreciate by actual c
. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. tones, purjilc, crimson, bright red, and solferino. Perhaps the most satisfactory varieties in point of color are: Chrysanthemum Flowered, Comet, Victoria, Triumph, Truflaut's Perfection, Mignon, and Betteridge's Quilled. These varieties which follow are particularly beautiful. Boston Florist's Bright Rose; a perfectly pure pink which we can only appreciate by actual comparison. Place be- side this aster, a bit of salmon rose Phlox Drummondii, or a _ specimen of salmon pink Ranunculus poppy, and the purity of the aster's pink will at once become apparent. , , Now place a ijyyj^a^^-r=^ Pink Color. '^ ^"^^/<^22i^ P'"'^ morning ^^^4^^?^ ulory beside the same flower, and '^V^ note the difference; the aster's color is far more pure and brilliant. When the morning-glory is placed beside the phlox, the two kinds of pink speak for themselves, and the morning glory is at a dis- count. Next, there is the Prince of Wales Aster, magenta crimson; a color nearly like the magenta petunia which I have referred to in previous pages; then a Victoria (described as light blue), very pale violet or purple blue in color, and one pure purple in tone; and finally the Triumph, rich, light crimson-red in tone, which florists are apt to call scarlet; but there is absolutely no scarlet blood in the aster family. The white Victoria is creamy in tone, and the white Comet is pure white of a translucent quality, less pronounced in charac- ter. The white Comet when tinged with pink, is especially delicate and ASTER, A Rosy Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original M
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