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Wanscher's Flouser Colour Chart
How to uee the chart
Couer the flou;er or part thereof
with the little opening of the f otrled
grey mask enclosed. Place the two
openi,ngs of the mask ouer adjoining
colour bands, the hues of tnhi,clt
are nxost like that of the flouer.
Moae the mask along the bands until
a closer resemblance in regard
to lightness has been attained.
In most cases the flower colour will be
found in the interval between two adjoining
bands; it may, for example, be more purplish
and less reddish than that of band h.
but less purplish and more reddish than
that of band i. In this case the designation
of hue is "purplish red". This designation
covers all hues between h and i, and includes
the hue of the former, this being the
reddest. The flower may often be darker
than the printed colours. If so, lift the
mask l-2 inches above the chart and shade
the latter, the colours being observed
through the openings as before. Observed
in this way the yellows will turn olive. the
oranges brown.
Explanation of the chart
The Flower Colour Chart divides the
colour circle in 21 par.ts, each with its own
designation. These parts are the intervals
between the colours of the printed bands
marked by the letters a to u. The intervals
have been coordinated with the Horticultural
Colour Chart (H.C.C.), edited by the
Royal Horticultural Society, and recommended
by the International Horticultural
To be insetted in cataloyues and books, in which the simplified
colour descriptions are used.
Congress as a standard for the more detailed
descriptions of cultivars. It will be
seen that the colours found to be identical
with H.C.C. 64 and 1, or their shades and
tints, belong to the first interval, and their
hue should be designated as "greenish yellow";
H.C.C. 2, 3 and 4 belong to the next
intelval, and their hue should be designated
as "yellow", and so on.
The present chart should be considere