Excerpt from House-Painting, Carriage-Painting, and Graining: What to Do, and How to Do It It is a misfortune that the names of colors are to such an'extent arbitrary, indefinite. The employment of signs so indeterminate as are the names of colors and tints, en hances the difficulties of imparting information, and renders necessary the use of words which have too often only local meanings. The word red, for example, signifies to one mind old red sandstone; to another, the color of bricks; and so on, through the whole range of tones wherein the red ray of light is in any degree perceptible. The attempt will be made in the following treatise to associate the names of colors with such flowers, fruits, and other familiar objects as are supposed to present the best examples of the purest tones of the various respective colors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.