. Plants, their natural growth and ornamental treatment. Decoration and ornament; Plants in art; Plants. AND ORNAMENTAL TREATMENT. 6i student will find in such authors as Owen Jones, Dresser, and others, these matters very fully handled; we have, therefore, in the present work, striven rather to occupy ground not so fully pre-occupied. Such a work as this should, however, if rightly viewed, be regarded only as a means to an end, and that end the individual study of Nature itself It has been our desire to produce a book that should prove sufficiently suggestive to the reader to lead him to stud
. Plants, their natural growth and ornamental treatment. Decoration and ornament; Plants in art; Plants. AND ORNAMENTAL TREATMENT. 6i student will find in such authors as Owen Jones, Dresser, and others, these matters very fully handled; we have, therefore, in the present work, striven rather to occupy ground not so fully pre-occupied. Such a work as this should, however, if rightly viewed, be regarded only as a means to an end, and that end the individual study of Nature itself It has been our desire to produce a book that should prove sufficiently suggestive to the reader to lead him to study farther for himself, and certainly not to rest wholly on our labours. It is too much the custom with many manufacturers to recklessly appropriate the ideas of others; too much the fashion with many designers to tread closely in the footsteps of those who, by a successful idea, have diverted thought in that direction. It has not been our aim to produce a series of designs that might be, at slight expenditure of thought or labour, adapted to various commercial purposes, but rather to refer manufacturers and designers alike to that wealth of fancy that may be so readily developed and utilised by a consideration of the beauty and wealth of Nature, and by an adaptation to ornamental purposes of those general principles of plant growth, and those varied details that repay a closer study, that would render the work produced at once more novel in conception and more beautiful in effect than would probably be the result of a merely modified treatment of some idea that, once novel and possibly good, has long since got too well-worn to be able to claim any credit on the first score, while even its recurring goodness, assuming that it possesses it, is, after all, not wholly desirable, since it usurps the place that some other equally beautiful and fresher form might have taken, and imposes a narrowness of scope that the abundant wealth of floral beauty does not justify. In presenting to
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