Orange…the color named for a fruit!

A mixture of light and heat…orange plays a brilliant part in the decoration of the universe. It gives life to the harmonies of the dawn, and mingling with the dramatic scene of declining day, it adds its numberless vibrations to the endless novelty of spectacle which the sinking sun presents. Charles Blanc

Orange. ---This bright color appears frequently in nature: in the brilliant sunset it is the most prominent color; in the autumn the forest gives it in abundance; and it is seen in the fire, when it is as active as the leaping flame, constantly changing its tone until it merges into its black cap of smoke. Nature gives many birds and butterflies a touch of this color, and the yolk of the egg is a very rich orange. The half-ripe berries of the bittersweet, the marigold, the zinnia, all glow with this bright color---and the pumpkin and squash and the carrot. Prang, Hicks, & Clark, Color Instruction, 1893