The works of John Ruskin . ower open, and two buds set at fixed distance belowit and depressed from the stalk (see lower figure), while theopen blossom uniformly places itself so as to have one ofits five petals pointing downwards, and advances this petaltowards the light while it curves the two upper ones backfrom it (see also lower figure). The result of this arrange-ment is that when we gather the whole stalk of blossomsand look at it near, we get various perspectives of thebeautiful profile seen in the lower figure, while the flowerin front has its lower petal seen at full length, as in th
The works of John Ruskin . ower open, and two buds set at fixed distance belowit and depressed from the stalk (see lower figure), while theopen blossom uniformly places itself so as to have one ofits five petals pointing downwards, and advances this petaltowards the light while it curves the two upper ones backfrom it (see also lower figure). The result of this arrange-ment is that when we gather the whole stalk of blossomsand look at it near, we get various perspectives of thebeautiful profile seen in the lower figure, while the flowerin front has its lower petal seen at full length, as in theupper figure, the two lateral ones a little shorter, and thetwo upper conceal their extremities so as to round off theirpoints altogether; and thus the whole flower associates itselfin aspect with quite different families, like the Pelargoniums,which have unequal leaves in their cinquefoil. This sketch 1 [Water-colour by Ruskin. No. 29 in Cabinet II. of the Working Series(see below, p. 304); here reproduced (Plate LXV.).]. Alien ??-. Co. 3c Flower oi francesca G-eiim1 RUDIMENTARY SERIES, 1878 285 is also useful in showing the scattered administration ofcolour in the Francescas by fragments and points, the tenstamens arranged in an outer and inner circle placing them-selves between the petals in the wider circle, and above thepetals in the narrower—the effect of the whole being com-pleted by the dashes of darker red on the petals them-selves, from which red stigmata the plant is now calledFrancesca in our school The sketch was madeonly to illustrate these points—it is much too careless to becopied—but I wish my botanical scholars to make studiesof this kind of every wild blossom, not at all as paint-ings of them, but as notes of their mode of growth andmethods of colour. 231. Dried Blossom of the Common Rtish} What I have been saying of the value of position inflowers is infinitely more true with respect to the lowerfamilies of the sedges and grasses, whose beaut
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