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Round a doorway in the same cathedral are two forms of 
ornament, which have led to much discussion in the past. 
Reference will, at present, be made only to the inner one, which 
is a row of fruits placed touching one another and showing only 
the top portions, in the centre being a raised and small opening 
from which radiate five incised lines, as if to suggest the splitting 
open of the outer covering. There is no round fruit or bud 
in Nature That agrees with these markings, but it may be safely 
considered that the common “ hips,” or fruit of the rose, were 
the source of the suggestion to the workman. 
This seems more certain after observing three finialjj over 
another doorway in the cathedral of the same period, wherein one 
of them has groups of single rose flowers in gradated series, and 
the others apparently rows of fruits, similar in appearance to 
those referred to in the mouldings of the smaller doorway. 
The Hazel is another shrub to supply material to the 
craftsman and as it is so frequently found in the hedge¬ 
row,. a branch of it may well have been cut off from some neigh¬ 
bouring tree and then copied into stone to be placed within a 
sacred building. It is well represented by its outspread leaves 
and clusters of three and four nuts on the boss of the vaulting 
of the Berkeley tomb in Bristol Cathedral. This boss is the 
companion one to that showing the vin‘e already mentioned. The 
stems of the fruiting branch issue from the. mouth and curly 
beard of a man’s mask, while the leaves and fruit spread out 
and surround the head. This is supposed to be a portrait of 
the Lord Berkeley, who lies buried beneath with his mother. 
Coming to the herbaceous plants which find a place on the 
capitals, bosses and mouldings, there is the Yellow Water-lily, 
its thick cup-like blossoms standing up erect, being familiar 
objects in many of our streams and ponds. 
We find it in bud lying on its large leaves on a capital 
in Bristol Cathedral. 
The handsome White Water-lily finds a place also amongst 
the sculptured flowers in Bristol. Beautifully carved and true 
to Nature, the blossoms appear on the outside of the tower of St. 
Mary Redcliffe Church, placed singly in a row along the arcade 
moulding. 
Another plant is the White Bryony, the hedge vine of old 
'writers, and a familiar flower of the hedgerow. 
It is shown in naturalistic style on one of the stellated 
recesses of Bristol, with the blossoms and clearly marked tendrils 
for climbing into the sunlight, and, again,it gracefully entwines 
a boss in the Berkeley Chapel, together with its small red berries. 
The form of its leaves with well marked veins, is very graceful, 
and this plant and the Meadow Buttercup were much in favour in 
the Decorated period of architecture. 
Examples of the Buttercup are to be found in another of 
the recesses, where the arch is closely decorated with the leaves 
