THE BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL
“ My love is like a red, red rose,” was a charming poetic fancy. Any member worth his salt of the British Colour Council or of the Royal Horticultural Society would demand that the resemblance should be more closely defined (writes a London correspondent). The former body has for years been standardising tones of colour, naming and numbering them precisely, mainly for the benefit of the manufacturers of fabrics. the Royal Horticultural Society is now issuing, for the help of gardeners, a book containing one hundred colours, each divided into four tones. The volume will be issued early next year, and will overcome the difficulty of putting a precise name to a colOn each of the plates in the book
of the Royal Horticultural Society will be the standard name of the colour. our given by the British Colour Council, and the equivalents in several languages, the four tones to each, and the names of flower examples.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 8
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160THE BRITISH COLOUR COUNCIL Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 8
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