] Amaranthus ..Asphodel Lily...Auricular...Capuchine ...Dead Leaf... Drake's Neck...Indian Wood ...London Smoke ...Nakara ...Ramoneur ...Spanish Fly...Stone... Vigogne

Were these given in one journal, Louisa, with an explanation or colour plate or were the readers just sort of "expected" to know what they meant?

This is what I imagined might be the case; that in the absence of colour prints and television to show you what was fashionable, a whole common language of colour had to be evolved to describe colour accurately through black-and-white texts.

I can guess at a few of the colours
Amaranthus-whatever colour the flower most commonly was then. A sort of less-bright, less orangey coquelicot!?
Auricular -I guess a dark purple, the most common colour of Auricula flowers, a very fashionable primrose-family pot-plant in Regency times
Capuchine - brown like the monkey rather than brown like a capucino coffee which I don't think existed?
Dead Leaf - another type of brown but whether red-brown or pale, flat brown I have no idea
Drake's Neck - rich dark green
London Smoke - dark browny-grey?
Stone - beige that's a bit greyish (or taupe that's a bit greyish - yes, Caroline, I wore a great deal of this in the eighties. But refused to use the word at the time.)

These I can't even guess at:
Asphodel Lily - pale. What Dulux would call "white with a hint of something" perhaps?
Indian Wood
Nakara
Ramoneur
Spanish Fly (not a colour in the UK!)
Vigogne