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to see its hatchet-shaped vertically crested cluster of leaves 

 c transforming themselves gradually 



downwards into branches; and in 

 one-leaved trees the vertically edged 

 group is of great importance. 



10. Cut out another piece of paper 

 like a in Fig. 21, but now, instead of 

 merely giving it nicks at a, b, cut it 

 into the shape A, Fig. 23. Roll the 

 lower part up as before, but instead 

 of pulling the upper part down, pinch 

 its back at the dotted line, and bring 

 the two points, a and b, forward, so 

 that they may touch each other. B 

 shows the look of the thing half-done, before the points a 

 and b have quite met Pinch them close, and stitch the 

 two edges neatly together, all the way from a to the point 

 c ;.. then roll and tie up the lower part as before. You 

 will find then that the back or spinal line of the whole 

 leaf is bent forward, as at B. Now go out to the garden 

 and gather the green leaf of a fleur-de-lys, and look at it 

 and your piece of disciplined paper together ; and I fancy 

 you will probably find out several things for yourself that 

 I want you to know. 



11. You see, for one thing, at once, how strong the 

 fleur-de-lys leaf is, and that it is just twice as strong as a 

 blade of grass, for it is the substance of the staff, with its 

 sides flattened together, while the grass blade is a staff cut 



