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 77
ightened 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 of erect or pendent fruit.… … Fig. 12. and can of course be amply illustrated. The way in which he treatsthe tendril always gives us a clue to the imaginative faculty of theartist, because the tendril is the engineer of the vine, and has to carryout its plans with a forethought and calculation which altogether exceedthe skill…
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