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GLASS MODELS OF FLOWERS. 
By Mary W. Porter. 
A visrror from this side of the Atlantic to the Harvard Museum 
’ ld Blascka was the founder of the art of representing 
in glass marine invertebrates and plant life, and collections of 
in glass for the ce e de Rohan, of Prague, which was 
unfortunately destroyed by fire, and this gave him a dislike to that 
branch of his art. It was not until 1886 that he again attempted 
of Dr. George Goodale, of Harvard, who paid a visit to the studio 
at Hosterwitz, near Dresden, with the express intention of obtain- 
ing a promise for a certain number of models for the Harvard 
m.--Dr. 
Museu 
the collection became the gift of Mrs. and Miss Ware, of Boston, 
in memory of Mr. Charles E. Ware. 
The original plan was to represent the flora of North and South 
America, and the younger Blascka twice crossed the ocean in order 
to study American plants, but this plan became extended, When 
the collection is complete, in about a year, it will include models of 
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The flowers are in sprays and clusters, of such accuracy in every 
detail and so natural in arance that the living flowers seem to 
lie before one. The classification is arranged in the sequence 
adopted by Engler in his Pflanzenfamilien. Walter Deane, who 
carefully examined a number of models in the order to discover any 
possible errors, testifies to the artist’s botanical knowledge. He 
says :—‘ In the case of Arala spinosa L., the building > of the 
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