For instance, as contrast to a copper-coloured wall, a softly toned green carpet is nearly always successful.

This one colour, green, is always safe and satisfactory in a floor-covering, provided the walls are not too strong in tone, and provided that the green in the carpet is not too green.

Certain brownish greens possess the quality of being in harmony with every other colour.

They are the most peaceable shades in the colour-world--the only ones without positive antipathies.

Green in all the paler tones can claim the title of peace-maker among colours, since all the other tints will fight with something else, but never with green of a corresponding or even of a much greater strength.