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RERAMIC STUDIO 
LETTER FROM AN EX-SUBSCRIBER. 
THE editors enjoy the frank expression of opinion from sub- 
scribers to Keramic Studio, whether favorable or other- 
wise. Occasionally a letter is received which touches their 
sense of humor. The following note we consider a gem of 
its kind, and the temptation to publish it is too great to 
resist. 
" Keramic Studio Pub. Co.. Syracuse. 
" I do not care to renew my subscription to Keramic 
Studio as I found it of very little use in an artistic way, the 
conventional designs in many cases being far from attractive, 
and too much detail given to dissecting orchids, etc. This is 
as I see it after twenty years experience in art work. Others 
may think otherwise. Think it best to give a reason why. 
" Respectfully yours Mrs. G. M. W." 
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FIRST AMERICAN POTTERY 
FROM the State records it appears that Dr. Daniel Coxe, 
of London, proprietor and afterward Governor of West 
Jersey, was undoubtedly the first manufacturer of white ware 
on this side of the Atlantic. He did not make his residence 
in this country, but, through his agent, John Tatham, caused 
a pottery to be erected at Burlington, N. J., in the year 1689. 
Later his son, Daniel Coxe, took charge of his father's inter- 
ests in America and effected a sale of them to the West Jersey 
Society of London, in 1691, for the sum of £9,600. The 
transfer enumerates "a pottery and tools, complete." 
TREATMENT OF BEGONIA— ALICE B. HOLBROOK 
THE little blossoms are of two kinds, staminate and pistil- 
late, and are quite different in shape. The staminate 
flowers are heart-shaped in the bud, and have four petals, two 
large ones enclosing two smaller ones. The pistillate flower 
is often irregular in form, having five or six petals of varying 
size, borne on the end of the three-angled ovary, and the pistil 
resembles three tiny curling bits of yellow chenille. 
The waxy flowers are pink, very deep on the outside, and 
more delicate in the wide open flowers. The leaves are a rich 
glossy green with deep red veins. All the stems are a rich 
red. Use Rose for the flowers. Lemon Yellow shaded with 
Yellow Brown in centres. Lay in leaves with Apple and 
Moss Greens, with a little Russian Green for the bluish lights, 
shading with Olive Brown and Shading Greens. The veins 
and stems are Ruby with a little Blood Red mixed with it. 
For the background use delicate washes of Apple and 
Russian Greens, deepening into Royal Green under the flowers 
and Brown Green and Meissen Brown in the deepest shadings. 
