Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Harebell. a delicate ascending gradation of form, from the rounded leavesat the lower end of the stem, to the thin, almost grass-like leavesof the upper part. Drawings of the harebell will be found inT. N. O. 80; P. F. 12. The Hazel-nut [Corylus avellana) is so familiar a shrub thatany lengthened description of it must be needless, or, to quoteour old writer, Gerarde: Our hedge-nut, or hazel-nut tree,which is very well knowne, and therefore needeth not anydescription, whereof there are als
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Harebell. a delicate ascending gradation of form, from the rounded leavesat the lower end of the stem, to the thin, almost grass-like leavesof the upper part. Drawings of the harebell will be found inT. N. O. 80; P. F. 12. The Hazel-nut [Corylus avellana) is so familiar a shrub thatany lengthened description of it must be needless, or, to quoteour old writer, Gerarde: Our hedge-nut, or hazel-nut tree,which is very well knowne, and therefore needeth not anydescription, whereof there are also sundry sorts, some great,some little, as also one that is in our gardens, which is very H 50 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. great, bigger than any filberd, and yet a kinde of hedge-nut;this then that hath beene said shall suffice for smaller twigs of the hazel afford an excellent charcoal forartistic purposes, and the long straight shoots, thrown up withsuch rapidity and vigour, are largely employed in the manu-. Nut. facture of the crates in which earthenware is packed—a use forwhich their size and flexibility combined with great strengthadmirably fit them, as the rods, when the wood is still green,may be bent almost double before they will give way. There isa pleasing appropriateness in its English name, hazel-nut, derived from the Anglo-Saxon haesel, a hat, and hnuf, a nut or ball,which we notice and appreciate when we see the fruit in itsnatural state, surrounded by the foliaceous and cap-like partialenvelope formed by the scales of the involucre. The genericname also, Corylus, refers to this peculiarity of growth, beingderived from a Greek word signifying a covering for the natural order to which the hazel belongs includes severaltrees of great value to man, either on account of their timberor their fruit—such, for example, as the beech, Spanish chestnut,and the oak; and in the olden time, when a belief in the useof the divining-rod, as an indicator
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