The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 37
r leisurehours in pursuingthis art. Moreskill is required tomodel flowers in theformer than tomake them in thelatter. The fol-lowers of eachbranch have theirown particular rea-sons for preferringthe one to the other. Those who modelin wax say thatthey can morefaithfully show theexact… … THE PRIMULA. at the results ; whenso frail, so delicate, soperishable, that they have to be placed under a glass shade, andthen good-bye at once to all appearance of reality; while wefearlessly place our buds and blossoms here and there, mix thecounterfeit with the real, twine the wire stalks…
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