PREPARING THE LEAVE B AND FLOWERS. 



ijHEN Spring has once more dressed both 

 tree and shrub in their gorgeous livery 

 of green, the artist begins to look 

 around her for the most suitable sub- 

 jects for experiment. The influence of the new study 

 on her mind becomes immediately apparent to herself. 

 The trees, which have heretofore appeared to her as 

 presenting an unbroken uniformity of foliage, now dis- 

 play their leaves to her sharpened observation with a 

 wealth of capabilities before unknown to her, and she 

 is surprised to learn how infinite a variety exists in 

 the vegetable world ; variety, not only in size and out- 

 line, but in those other characteristics which are so 



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