Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 246
but for that evidence it might just aswell pass for maple, or cranesbill, or hibiscusleaf. Such corroborative evidence of identity isoften needed. In the process of adaptation toornamental conditions the unmistakable cha-racter of a plant is not uncommonly eliminated.One is perplexed, for example,… … Pmoto Timt, try V am e* Akarmai London W C Clasical rGndenn^ of the vine. Parallel Renderiiios, 3 faith, failing grapes, and more particularlytendrils (p. 59 and Plate 29). The grapes are sometimes as remote fromnature as the leaves, and the scale to whichthe bunches are reduced often removes them
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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