HYB: color
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- Subject: HYB: color
- From: a*@cs.com
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:57:16 EST
In a message dated 11/30/00 5:14:14 AM Mountain Standard Time, lmann@icx.net
writes:
<< I tried to pick out some photos from catalogs that match
what I think the color names mean, and quickly figured out that won't
work either. >>
Ahhhhh...... But the question is not what WE think the color names mean --
it's what the hybridizers of the time thought each name meant.
By adding registration data to the mix, it's certainly possible to come up
with useful examples. To take a very simple one:
WEST COAST (Knopf, '68) was registered as a cadmium orange (8/1) self. This
corresponds to RHS 23B, from the yellow-orange group. I compared that chip
to a photo in Cooley's catalog and found it to be a very close match. [If
you've ever compared catalog photos with real, live flowers you have a feel
for the variation involved in the printing process.]
To my eye, WEST COAST is more yellow than orange and in TWOI it is listed
among the deep golden yellows -- so this exercise certainly helps place the
term "cadmium orange" in a modern perspective.
Sharon McAllister
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