20 FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE 



Buntzlau, young Leopold early showed ar- 

 tistic tastes. After he had studied in the 

 common school of his native town, Eisner 

 the painter, who lived in his father's house 

 for a time, gave him lessons in painting 

 and advised him to devote himself to that 

 art. His grandfather was also anxious that 

 he should do so. But his father held other 

 views about his life-work, and in deference 

 to his parent's wishes, Leopold went to a 

 goldsmith's near Turnau, one of the old 

 walled towns of Bohemia, on the river Iser, 

 a few miles distant from his birthplace, 

 where he served an apprenticeship. He 

 then returned home, and while following 

 the occupation of making fancy articles in 

 glass and the precious metals for export by 

 various business houses, spent his leisure 

 time in the study of natural history. When 

 about thirty-one years old, in 1853, the 

 state of his health and the interests of his 

 business led him to undertake a voyage to 

 this continent on a sailing vessel. Upon 

 this journey he spent much of his leisure 

 time in the study of marine invertebrates, 

 and made many drawings of them during a 

 calm at sea. 



After his return to Europe in 1854, he 

 began the manufacture of specimens of 

 these sea-animals in glass, and produced 

 the first of the glass models of flowering 



