cooling, specimens of fungus-covered fruits or dried 
leaves for use as guides (for the most part he studies them 
without glasses), bottles with powdered glass for use as 
needed, and saucers for the enamel paints he makes of 
powdered glass. In spite of the slightly unsteady hand, 
his movements are quiet, deft, soft in laying down or 
taking up where speed or a miscalculated movement 
might ruin the work of hours. It is breathless to watch. 
The first afternoon, I saw the pears in every stage of 
disease, sometimes the fruit only, sometimes leaves and 
branches also. The moulds were wonderful, and I think 
you will be delighted with them all, but, of course, I 
know nothing of fungi. He had magnified 250 times a 
section of mould which comes on bread — remarkable. 
The strawberries were fascinating — plants, fruit and 
moulds: also the result of frosts on the developing fruit. 
The apples, also, were good; the peaches in their present 
stage of development seemed to me less so, but the final 
varnish was not yet on, and they all looked rather glassy. 
It all leaves you breathless that anyone can and will do 
such work. 
Mr. Blaschka’s head and bearing are very expressive, 
and L wished I could catch a photograph of his profile as 
he stood for a few moments, a plaque with a model on 
it held in both hands. His whole expression of absorbed, 
concentrated study was worth keeping, had it been possi- 
ble. His own garden is small but full of fruit trees from 
which he gets some of his material for work: and the rest 
he gets from large fruit orchards near by. He also has 
books on fungi and mushrooms, and is looking forward 
sagerly to the work for Professor Weston. He says the 
lamellae will be very difficult but that he can make them. 
In view of his advancing years and the uncertainty of 
health, I would suggest that Professor Weston make a 
list of those subjects which he wants most, those which 
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