Art-Studies from Nature, as Applied to Design For the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers

In the works of the ornamentist, to the best of our knowledge, the _Q. robur_ form of the oak has been exclusively used. To give an extended list of the places where illustratio...

The impulse created in their favour is thus subsequently confirmed on rational and acknowledged grounds of admiration. This is the more satisfactory that, belonging to no school...

HOLLY (_Ilex aquifolium_). This plant, from its association with winter, should be one of those familiar to the student of ornamental art. Drawings of it may be found in S. B. 1...

word rose is derived, according to some authors, from the Celtic _rhos_, which is in turn derived from the adjective _rhodd_, red; while others affirm that it descends to us fro...

It is not in the herbarium, not in drawings, not when dried and shrivelled, and black and contorted, that we can see the beauty of sea-weeds; such are no more than the bleared a...

Some plants, beautiful in themselves, possess an increased importance in the eyes of the followers of ornamental art, from their being used heraldically; such, for example, are...

The most useful as well as the most ornamental devices which have sprung from the exercise of human ingenuity have all been founded upon the varied and beautiful creations which...

“In the multitude of counsellors there is safety;” we will, therefore, here quote some few passages from the works of those whom we think we can all agree are entitled to speak...

The _Sphenopteris tridactylites_, which exhibits in the arrangement of its fronds one of the most symmetrical forms to be found among this elegant class of plants, can scarcely...

member at least of the characteristic group, the _Dictyota atomaria_ ought to be--as it really is--both rare and beautiful. The ancient _nomen triviale_ of _Phasiana_ expresses...

Nature may be studied in many aspects; her wealth of service and beauty is freely open to all who seek; and while the man of science, by patient study and assiduous toil, may le...

There is a point whence life and vegetation seem to diverge--the simple cell; where the algæ meet the monads, and most mysterious processes and elaborations are carried on by me...