FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE 



I 



SINCE flowers were first created many 

 futile attempts have been made to seize 

 and fix the fugitive grace and loveliness of 

 these fairest and frailest of all growing 

 things. Their semblance has been carved 

 in marble and painted on canvas and 

 worked in wax and formed out of rubber 

 and silk, and even out of paper. But the 

 imitations in marble are cold and colorless, 

 and those on canvas too often tame and con- 

 ventional, while those in wax and silk and 

 rubber and paper lose their brightness and 

 freshness almost as soon as the beautiful 

 blossoms from which they are copied lose 

 theirs. 



It remained for an artist of Bohemia, 

 living in Germany, and his son, both mar- 

 vellously deft and cunning workers in glass, 

 to surmount all obstacles, and to solve the 

 problem of reproducing flowers not alone 

 as they actually appear in color and form 



