実生法によるチューリップの育種学的研究(II-1) : 花色の色彩学的採色調査

The aim of this paper is to survey an aspect of flower color of considerable importance to both floriculturist and breeder. The subject, more over, is one of the foundamental investigation which occupies a central position in the judging of flowers as a whole. It is held that a worked such as this should tend to be practical in outlook and it should lead to new investigations. To this end an attempt has been made to set out some of the leading ideas relating to surveying flower colors, and to illustrate positive results thus far achieved by effect examples.
The one of the working methods is colorimetric. Hence, the author surveyed on the color of flower parts and discussed the color harmony at the point of view upon breedings.
In this paper it has been demonstrated that the number of hue observed in perianthium is eleven and most of all is the hue "Red", "Yellow", and "Purplish Red". And both luminosity and saturation of these hues are higher, i.e. the flower of pale and light color is in majority. On further analysis, purplish blue or black color takes higher appearance in reddish flowers than in yellowish flowers.
On the other hand the variety won best fame in markets have the dominancy of color harmony.
And so the author will institute an inquiry such as we may must investigate and exeriment on breeding of the tulips having the color harmony.