finished, perhaps, in August and September; for the first flower in the 

 upper left-hand corner, where the work would naturally begin, is a 

 thyrse of Lilac, and the last, low down on the right, is a Nasturtium ; 

 while the intermediate flowers, following each other in what would be 

 approximately their natural sequence, come in between. These are 

 Pansy, Rose, Sweet Pea, Love-in-a-Mist, Lily, Larkspur, Convolvulus, 

 Carnation, Jasmine and Passion-flower ; and one Daisy-shaped flower, 

 whose identity, considering the numbers of possible Composites and the 

 somewhat vague manner of the rendering, cannot be determined, though 

 all the other flowers are capitally done and could not be mistaken. 



The disk of the Daisy-flower is worked in a mass of those little knots 

 that sit closely together, the secret of whose making is known to every 

 good needlewoman. They are a capital direct imitation of the group of 

 anthers in the centre of a flower. 



The glory of the picture, and what was evidently the delight of the 

 worker, is the Love-in-a-Mist, which stands above the others in the 

 middle top of the picture. The tender blue of the flower, shading to 

 white, the sharply-jagged edges of the petals, the green upstanding forms 

 in the centre, and, above all, the fennel-like divisions of the involucre and 

 the leaves, all lend themselves to satisfactory portrayal with the needle ; 

 while the prominent position given to this charming midsummer flower 

 shows how the worker rejoiced in its beauty and took pleasure in painting 

 its form and colour in tender stitchery upon the white silken ground of 

 her picture. The Jasmine flowers, too, are done with evident enjoyment 

 as well as the neat, clear-cut leaves. The Rose is a Moss-Rose, shown 

 in three stages of bud and half-blown bloom, when this charming Rose 

 is at its best ; the mossiness of the calyx being cleverly suggested by 

 short straw-coloured stitches that catch the light upon a ground of dull 

 green. The working material is floss silk, whose silvery, shining surface, 

 dark in some lights, makes a distinct effect of light and shade in the case 

 of the white flowers, even though they are worked upon a ground 

 that is also white. 



Sometimes these pictures are of a bunch of flowers without a 

 receptacle, but often there is a basket or vase. In this case there is a 

 basket of very simple form, standing on a darker table worked in the 



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