The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . UPPER HOLLOWAY, New Edition, THE COTTAGERS CALENDARGARDEN OPERATIONS. Price Sd., Post-free 3id. W. RICHAPDS, 41, Wellington Street, Strana, London, W,C. Now ready, in cloth, lis. 6d. THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE,Vol. Third Series, JULY to DEC, RICHARDS, 41, Wellington Street, Strand, THE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1889. JAPANESE FLOEAL ^HE inartistic character of the work of souie-*- English artists, who essay the delineation offlowers, is one of the most obvious certainties of
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . UPPER HOLLOWAY, New Edition, THE COTTAGERS CALENDARGARDEN OPERATIONS. Price Sd., Post-free 3id. W. RICHAPDS, 41, Wellington Street, Strana, London, W,C. Now ready, in cloth, lis. 6d. THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE,Vol. Third Series, JULY to DEC, RICHARDS, 41, Wellington Street, Strand, THE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1889. JAPANESE FLOEAL ^HE inartistic character of the work of souie-*- English artists, who essay the delineation offlowers, is one of the most obvious certainties ofthe present day. The various exhibitions, yearafter year, proclaim, with a solitary exceptionhere and there, an astounding ignorance of themerest rudiments of floral-architecture amongartists—and eminent artists, too. Conglomerations, highly suggestive of modelsin Turnips stained red, are more often than notcatalogued as Roses, when they might bePseonies, double Kanunculi, or many otherthings—a fact which, at all events, demonstratesthe utility of a catalogue. And the sameobjection holds good with nearly every otherexample of floral art. Stiffness, exaggeration,and the most artificial notions of arrangement,are the besetting sins visible on all sides. Butperhaps the acme of unintentional caricature ismost frequently found in the picture in whichfloral subjects play only a subordinate pa
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