. The Decorator's assistant. als, to insert the ivy-leaf and plant, thatIappears tojselected for berry in the chaplets usually worn by them onall occasions of religious observance or ofsocial festivity. That certain medicinal vir-tues appertain to some species of the ivy, is apopular belief prevalent even to this day; andan extract prepared from the leaves and driedberries of the ground-ivy, is frequently recom-mended in medical works, even up to a veryrecent date, as a sovereign remedy for thetooth and ear-ache. However, as the Deco-rators Assistant has for its object to treat ofthese subject
. The Decorator's assistant. als, to insert the ivy-leaf and plant, thatIappears tojselected for berry in the chaplets usually worn by them onall occasions of religious observance or ofsocial festivity. That certain medicinal vir-tues appertain to some species of the ivy, is apopular belief prevalent even to this day; andan extract prepared from the leaves and driedberries of the ground-ivy, is frequently recom-mended in medical works, even up to a veryrecent date, as a sovereign remedy for thetooth and ear-ache. However, as the Deco-rators Assistant has for its object to treat ofthese subjects purely in their character ofadjuncts to ornament, and not with relationto their medicinal qvialities, whether fanciedor real, we by nomeans advise any ofour readers to placereliance on these al-leged specific virtuesof the ivy, either inaverting the head-ache, naturally con-sequent on pota-tions pottle-deep, orin the cure of anyother aches modern genera-tions, the idea mostusually suggested bythe subject of our. present notice, the ivy, is that of solitarydesolation, as depicted in the crumblingmasses of some time-honoured ruin; some «* * * ivy-mantled tower, wherein The moping owl doth to the moon complain. And here, we may remark, that, in the com-position of the ivy as an ornament, care mustbe taken to distinguish, both in the shape andposition of the leaf, and in other botanicalcharacteristics of the two species, the formof the climbing, and of the creeping or groundivy; instances of total inattention to whichdistinctive characteristics we have frequentlymet with in modern arrangements of thiselegantly-formed leaf, into pictorial or sculp-tured ornament. THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. 53
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