. Phantom flowers, a treatise on the art of producing skeleton leaves. Flower arrangement; Leaves. IHANTOM BOUQUETS, so uni- versally admired by all who can appreciate the chaste and beautiful in art, although but recently in- troduced to the notice of the American public, are no new thing. The art of preparing the fibrous skeletons of plants was understood and practised by the Chinese many centuries ago, and there are still to be found in our fancy stores reasonably per- fect specimens of these skeletonized leaves, generally painted and decorated with Oriental (7). Please note that these imag


. Phantom flowers, a treatise on the art of producing skeleton leaves. Flower arrangement; Leaves. IHANTOM BOUQUETS, so uni- versally admired by all who can appreciate the chaste and beautiful in art, although but recently in- troduced to the notice of the American public, are no new thing. The art of preparing the fibrous skeletons of plants was understood and practised by the Chinese many centuries ago, and there are still to be found in our fancy stores reasonably per- fect specimens of these skeletonized leaves, generally painted and decorated with Oriental (7). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Boston, J. E. Tilton


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