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PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
paintings, illuminations, tapestries or cloth 
fabrics. 
The plant world has been man’s most con- 
stant and readily apprehended artistic model. 
Yet when we see the multitude of attractive 
lines, curves and shapes in Nature’s great gar- 
den, we wonder that he has so limited his imita- 
tion. One rarely sees the Thorn-Apple, the 
Hawthorn, the Daisy or the Tulip in wood or 
stone, yet they are all exquisitely beautiful. 
Again, artists and artisans throughout the 
centuries have nearly always confined them- 
selves to but two phases of plant life — the 
leaves and the matured fruit. Tendrils have 
been neglected or treated with characterless 
mediocrity. Thorns, leaf stipules, buds, pods, 
and leaf scars have been universally overlooked. 
Who has ever seen the fruit of the Rose 1n or- 
namental art? Why is it no one has thought to 
use the leaf scars of trees like the Horse Chest- 
nut as decorative units? 
Grapes and Pomegranates are reproduced 
with some justice, but the various small berries 
almost always appear as miscellaneous spheri- 
cal bodies, whereas they are really greatly 
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