ARTISTIC PITHWORK. 



HERE was an extremely artistic and 

 beautiful model of the west front of 

 Exeter Cathedral placed in one of the 

 courts of the Great Exhibition of 1851 

 which attracted much notice and was 

 universally admired. It had the effect of 

 a fine ivory carving, every detail of the architecture 

 being executed with such minute fidelity that it 

 was difficult to believe that, instead of ivory, it had 

 been formed entirely in pith, but of what descrip- 

 tion I could never find out. 



Models of Indian temples are made by the 

 natives from the pith of a plant called Taccada, 

 and our own elder- tree yields a material with 

 which architectural details may be exactly imi- 

 tated. Since, however, these two kinds of pith 



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