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ALL the work of Leopold Blaschka and 

 his son was carried on at their residence in 

 the little town of Hosterwitz, a few miles 

 above Dresden on the Elbe, not so very 

 far away from the old home at Aicha in 

 Bohemia. The house is a large one. built 

 of brick and wood in the composite style 

 common in German country places. It was 

 once owned by a government official, and 

 contains a number of rooms, of which one 

 is used as a music-room and another as 

 an exhibition hall, while two are used as 

 studios. This residence is surrounded by 

 a good-sized American garden, supplied 

 by Professor Goodale with the more com- 

 mon native plants of temperate North 

 America. From among these plants come 

 the specimens that are studied in the 

 construction of the glass models. Less 

 than a mile away to the eastward is the 

 Royal Garden at Pilnitz, which is the sum- 

 mer home of the Court of Saxony, and 

 from which the Blaschkas were freely pro- 



