Show names are selected for 64 hues and about different flower colors the task of examining and standardizing a ard izing the colors ot of almost every flower in the world has been completed the w work ork which took three years was carried out by robert F WU wil son art director of the british color council working to in operation cooperation co with a committee of the royal horticultural society writes wiltes a london united press correspondent in the chicago daily news my first task wilson said was to separate the full hues which are found in flowers there are 64 of them but there are many shades ot of e each ach hue I 1 have examined different flowers they were sent to me by horticulturists all over the country then I 1 have gone down to wisley the horticultural socie ty tys I 1 atrial trial gro grounds to match up the colors of many empire and foreign flowers wilson found that there are about different flower colors he has named every one of them tracing the most ancient historical names for the different colors examples ot of pure colors he found in flowers are the orange of marigolds the yellow of mimosa the blue of gentian and the r red e d of salvia most orchids c on the other hand are not pure colors at all you can find every color to in the world in flowers he said and there are as many tones ot oi green as there are varieties of 0 color nature is the perfect artist and always provides exactly the right tone of green leaf to match the color of the flower the flowers have to be matched in full bloom for they change color slightly as they die away it is hoped that the color chart lor for flowers will be used in time by every horticulturist in the world so that flowers of the same color everywhere ery where will be described by the same color name |