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[ I.] That they are not flat, but, however slightly, always 

 hollowed into craters, or raised into hills, in one or an- 

 other direction ; so that any drawable outline of them 

 does not in the least represent the real extent of their sur- 

 faces ; and until you know how to draw a cup, or a moun- 

 tain, rightly, you have no chance of drawing a leaf. My 



simple artist readers of long ago, when 1 told them to 

 draw leaves, thought they could do them by the bough- 

 full, whenever they liked. Alas, except by old William 

 Hunt, and Burne Jones, I've not seen a leaf painted, since 

 those burdocks of Turner's ; far less sculptured though 

 one would think at first that was easier ! Of which we 

 shall have talk elsewhere ; here I must go on to note fact 

 number two, concerning leaves. 



