Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Colors of Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Colors of Flowers.

An English writer says that “the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow, are not to be found pure in any species of flower. ” Thus we have red and blue in the fuchsia, but no yellow; yellow and red in the rose, but no blue; blue and yellow in the pansy, but no red; and so on. If this is universally true it is certainly very curious. According to Humboldt and other modern authorities, however, the three primary colors are red, green, and blue, as maintained by Brjewster. The largest known flower, says the Scientific Farmer, is that of a parasitical plant, the Rafllesia Arnold! The plant has no proper stem or leaves, but consists of flowers, varying in diameter from 2 to 3 inches to 2 to 3 feet, enveloped at base by a few bluish or | brownish scales, and ‘ emerging from the roots and trunks of various species of Cissns in Sumatra. The flowers remain expanded but a few days, and then putrefy. , Reax merit of any kind cannot be concealedpit will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but' a man’s showing it himself. It may not always be. rewarded as it ought; but it will always-be known. . .