Ward, James, 1851-1927 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 70
this manner are finer and stronger in appear-ance, particularly for sculptured work, than any mereimitation of flower heads (see Fig. 95). Leaflets and PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENT. 57 bracts growing at the junctions of stems and leavesfurnished also ideas and forms for the making up ofrosettes and… … 94- composed of a stem or waved line clothed with thesebracts alone. Root forms are not used so much in orna-ment as they might be, perhaps from the fact that inNature they present an incongruous mass, and of courseare rarely visible in a plant, and it being generally easierto design a springing or…
Decoration and ornament
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