HYB: Yellow/Orange Names -- Continued
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- Subject: HYB: Yellow/Orange Names -- Continued
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- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:48:36 EST
Both GOLDEN APPLE (Plough, 75) and its sib GOLDEN INGOT (Plough '73) are
pictured in Eden Road Catalogs and the registered color names are used in the
descriptions so this tells us something about Gordon Plough's eye for color.
Repeating the GOLDEN APPLE data, so you don't have to go plowing through the
archives:
The standards are lemon yellow (4/1), which corresponds to RHS 13B. The RHS
name chart also calls it lemon yellow, but if you're talking about
old-fashioned homemade butter rather than today's store-bought stuff, I'd
say that "deep butter yellow" is a pretty good subjective description. The
falls' "lemon yellow (4)" corresponds to RHS 13A -- same color but slightly
deeper in tone. The beard's "Indian yellow (6) corresponds to RHS 16B --
which means it is just slightly oranger than the falls.
GOLDEN INGOT is simply described as saffron yellow (7/1) with a cadmium
orange beard. There is no exact correlation in the RHS system, but
interpolating between benchmarks I find it must be quite close to RHS 21B.
Again, the chip & catalog photo are a close match.
If you fan out the chips, it becomes clear that the progression goes from
lemon yellow through Indian yellow through saffron yellow to cadmium orange.
Without the chips -- or, better yet -- flowers for side-by-side comparision,
the distinctions are subtle.
Sharon McAllister
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