Colors Among Flowers

Yellow and white. Botanists are agreed that the earliest petals were yellow, and that, originally, all flowers were of that color. The order of deyelopment of color In tlowers appears v be yellow, pink, red, purple, lilac, up to deep blue - probably the highest level - while white inay occur in aii normally colored flower, just aa albinos are found among animáis. As flowers become more specialized they become more deiendent upon the visits of special insects. ' purple and blue floweri, for Instance, benefitting most from and being most preferred by bees and butterflies. A '-rench authority states that aibout V-0 species of plants art utilized for various purposes in Europe Of these only about one-tenth have ar agreeable perfume, the others being either inodorous or having an unpleasant smell. White flowers are the most numerous. One thousand óne 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; tnen blue, 594 (34 scented), and violet, 308, only 13 of which have any perfume. The remaining 400 kinds ar of varlous shades of color, and only 28 of them have a pleasant smelL -