Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Mistletoe. sive use in the various developments of decorative art. We needonly mention a few—the backs of playing-cards, earthenware,muslins, chintzes, wall-papers. Many other uses will, no doubt,readily suggest themselves to our readers. The Oak [Quercus robur\ while perhaps our best-known in-digenous tree, from its wealth of legendary, religious, and historicassociations, has also been one of the favourite subjects of theornamentist, being abundantly found in carving, stencilling,draperi
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Mistletoe. sive use in the various developments of decorative art. We needonly mention a few—the backs of playing-cards, earthenware,muslins, chintzes, wall-papers. Many other uses will, no doubt,readily suggest themselves to our readers. The Oak [Quercus robur\ while perhaps our best-known in-digenous tree, from its wealth of legendary, religious, and historicassociations, has also been one of the favourite subjects of theornamentist, being abundantly found in carving, stencilling,draperies, glass, &c, both in England and on the Continent, THE ADAPTABILITY OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS. 73 throughout the whole range of the Decorated and Perpendicularstyles of Gothic, and the corresponding periods in France, Spain,and Germany, and also afterwards in the various modificationsof the Renaissance. To refer at any length to the varied associa-tions surrounding it would be foreign to our present purpose,though its sacred character in the Druidical rites of the ancient. Oak. Britons, the importance of its timber for the purposes of the ship-wright and architect, the commercial value of the bark for use intanning, leading to the felling of thousands of trees every year, itsuse in medicine, the bark being a powerful astringent, and aninfusion from Ihe galls so frequently found upon the oak being anexcellent antidote in cases of poisoning by the tartrate of anti- L mony, are all points of interest or utility in connection with has also been one of the favourite trees of the poets—Dryden,Pope, Cowper, Wordsworth, and many others, having referred toit in their writings ; while to the artist the rugged majesty andvigour of the branches in winter, the brilliant bronze red of theearly spring foliage, the deep mass of dark green leaves insummer-time, or the fiery glow it bears when touched by thefrosts of advancing winter, render it at all times a beautiful andstriking object
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