Colors Among Flowers

Yellow and white. Botanista are agreed that the earliest petals were yellow, and that, originally, all flowers were of tliat color. The order of defreïopment of color In flowers appears - terellóXf, plnlt, reïï, pipíe, íllflC, lip to dep 'biuB-pi'obably the highest level- while white may occur in auy normally colored flower, just as albinos are found among animáis. As flowers become more specialized they become more dependent upon the1 tisits of speclal insecta. purple and blae flowers, tor instanee, benefltting most from and beintf most preferred by bees and butterflles. X FVmph authority states that aboüt 4,200 speciek of plants are utilized for vdripus purposè's in Europe. Of these only abolii one-tefltb Iiave an agreeable perfume, th othera belng either tnodorous or having an unpleasant smell. White flower3 are the most numerous. One thousand dne hundred and twenty-four species out of 4,200 are white, and 187 of these have a scent; 931 (77 perfumed) are yellow; next in order comes red, with 823, of which 84 give forth perfume; then blue, 594 (34 scented), and violet, 308, only 13 of which bave any perfume. The remaining 400 kinds are of varlous shades of color, and only 28 of them have a pleasant smell. - Bostoa Standard.