How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 163
n are cut open, they present excellent designs. Fig. 87 is across-section of the seed-vessel of the harebell. Other seedswill furnish queer forms and figures to be obtained in no otherway. Flcwer Sprays. The common white clover with its trefoil leaf is very pretty,and if a few sprays are placed… … outline of the group ; then trace it off in order to repeat the copy at equal intervals from the central figure (see il- lustration, page 138); this •^ makes a very simple and yet beautiful design for embroidery, needle-work, or wall-paper pattern. In the same manner try grasses and different kinds…