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(b) Capitals. 

 It is particularly adaptable for the form of architecture as shown in the capital 

 of the column Figure 8, the tips of the bracts being incurved and more of the 

 individual flower shown than in Figure 7. 

 The whole also conveys an idea of strengtli 

 and solidity. 



In capital decoration it has found favour 

 with local architects and stone carvers, 

 and one conception (Figure 9) is here given 



showing it carved as a capital in Sydney 

 sandstone. A richness of invention is 

 ])roduced without, in the least, destroying 

 the identity of the flower. This column » 

 forms part of the colonnade at Newington 

 College, Sydney. 



Fig. 9. 



(c) Ceilings. 



All credit must be gi\^en to the captains or leaders of Industrial Art in 

 Sydney ior tiie attention given lo or tlie employment of our native flora in 

 their various manuiael ures. The illustration (Mguu' 10) is one of several 

 different designs from the factory of Messrs. Wunderlich, Sydney, and is a 

 reproduction of a ceiling j)anel decoiated with the Waratah. Perhaps more 

 conventionalisation is introduced here than generally obtains when dealing with 



