Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 76
here would hardly aftect thespirals normal curve, if we took to hanging nothing but fruit on ourbough, the combined weight of it might tend to pull the spiral outof shape, and we should have to tighten it into very nearly a straightline before we should feel that it was safe. Such might be a… … The Spiral with Fruit and Straightened Stem 66 ARBOR VIT^. and even when it is absent its character must be maintained by acompensating frivolity in the petioles, or in closer and more sensitivearrangement of tributary leaves, or only, and as I think most effectively,by merely a tempting sequence…
Decoration and ornament
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