The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-17

dahlias of various red grouped together,
and you might find a brilliant King OF
Tom Thumb nasturtium beside some
purple red Sweet William or lady SIP
pers Of similar hue
Such arrangements as these cause the
eye accustomed to appreciate the erect
of contrast of colorS, to feel sensations
quite as disagreeable as those expert
euced by the musician whose ear is
struck with discOrdS. The space allowed
US, is estimated to give here sclentlhc
treaty on the harmony of colors IN their
practical application to the arrangement
of flowers; but it might not be out OF
place to give some suggestions how 10
associate properly, and give some eX-
ampIes of pleasing combinations.
ColorS which will harmonic with each
other are first those which are mutually
complimentary to each other. AS;
Blue flowers with orange flowers.
Yellow flowers and violet flowers
Rose and red contrast with green;
these flowers are therefor compliments
ry to their own leaves or to the neigh
boring turf
Take the above cited combination of a
brilliant King of Tom Thumb nasturti-
UNI beside a purple red Sweet William
it is hideous. But isolate it on the
border of a green lawn and the combi-
nation is beautiful.
Yellow flowers which incline to orange
accord very well with blue flowers yell
low flowers which incline more to green
than orange have a very good effect
blue rather than orange.
Deep red flowers accord well with
deep blue flowers.
Orange flowers are not misplaced near
violent flowers
We must separate:
Pink flowers from those that are eth
er scarlet or crimson.
Orange flowers from orange yellow
yellow flowers from greenish yellow
flowers.
Blue flowers from violet blue flowers.
Red flowers from orange flowers.
Pink flowers will not harmonic with
violet flowers, and it will be wise not to
have blue flowers in immediate neigh
borhood of violet flowers
White flowers are an Indispensable
ornament to a garden; they harmonic
with every color for even if they do not
produce as good an effect with pale vel
low and violet flowers as with red and
blue flowers, their association is never
Objectionable. White flowers are there
for the only ones that possess the ad-
vantage of separating all flowers whose
colors mutually injure each other
White flowers are the only ones possess
ing the ability of heightening the tone OF
flowers which have only a light tint of
any color whatever.
Returning to our King of Tom Thumb
nasturtium in a neighborhood of a
white flower it looks refined.
There is, finally, one circumstance
where flowers presenting a disagreeable
contrast of hueS may still produce d
good effect. This takes place in an as
sociation of flowers belonging to plants
of different heights, standing on different
planes. In this case, being no longer is
olated, they become in a manner the ell
ement, to a picture In a linear asso-
citation nothing is more unpleasant than
the blue flower of the German iris 'asso-
ciated with the light violet of lilac But
if we add to this association large tufts
of alyssum saratile, Persian Iberis and
red tulips, so that the golden yellow,
white, and deep red appear on one
plane, and the deep blue and the light
violet on a more distant plane we shall
obtain an ensemble of very agreeable
effect
CORNELIUS A. PROHL,.
207 Van Buren, street.