FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE 15 



displayed about eight hundred of the large 

 models, representing sprays and clusters of 

 flowers, and more than two thousand of the 

 magnified parts, showing in detail the struc- 

 ture of the different plants. From a scien- 

 tific point of view the magnified details 

 may perhaps seem at first sight to be the 

 most interesting ; but a close examination 

 shows that in scientific as well as in aes- 

 thetic value they cannot vie with the large 

 models. 



These wonderful productions are at once 

 so artistic and so accurate that the very 

 flowers themselves seem to be lying before 

 us. Here are dahlias, rhododendrons, sun- 

 flowers, begonias, and marigolds apparently 

 just plucked in the garden, and butter- 

 cups, cowslips, blue gentians, ground laurel, 

 swamp-pinks, and trailing arbutus to all 

 appearances fresh from the fields. This 

 trumpet creeper, with its clustering blos- 

 soms of brick red and pale orange, must 

 have been recently cut from the vine grow- 

 ing about some one's front porch, and 

 these large-flowered dog's-tooth violets, pur- 

 ple azaleas, and pretty cone-flowers, with 

 their velvety brown centres and ray-like 

 petals of deep yellow, cannot have been 

 gathered very long. 



Equally remarkable are the glowing bril- 

 liancy of the tints that range from the deli- 



