Overview

Remarkably broad in its applications, this helpful reference covers a wide variety of plants. More than 100 precise drawings of flowers, leaves, buds, and growth patterns are provided for such plants as the anemone, arbutus, broad bean, bell-flower, briar rose, campanula, canterbury bell, dahlia, and lily; a detailed narrative provides descriptions of physical features and general botanical information for each plant.Invaluable for making stencils, needlework canvases, and other floral design projects, this thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide will be a boon to amateur and professional artists, art students, and crafters.

Full Product Details

Author:   W G Paulson Townsend
Publisher:   Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint:   Dover Publications Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.285kg
ISBN:  

9780486443775

ISBN 10:   0486443779
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   28 October 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acanthus (Spinosa) Alstraemeria Anemone Apple Arbutus (or Strawberry tree) Bean (Broad) Bell-Flower (Nettled-leaved or Campanula) Bell-Flower (Canterbury) Bind-Weed Briar Rose (Small-leaved sweet) Burdock Campanula (or Nettle-leaved Bell-Flower) Canterbury Bell Cape Gooseberry Clematis (Wild) or Traveller's Joy Columbine (White) Convolvulus (or Bind-weed) Crane's-Bill (Meadow) Dahlia Dandelion Day Lily Delphinium (or Larkspur) Evening Primrose Everlasting Pea Fuchsia Grass (Small Hard) Great Bastard Woade Great Flowered Ox-eye Groundsel Hazel Nut Hip of Rose (Rosa) Hip of Briar Rose Hip of Rose (Rosa indica) Holly (Sea) Hollyhock (Single) Honesty Indian Corn (or Blew Turky Wheat) Iris (German) Iris (Yellow) Larkspur (or Delphinium) Lavender (Spike) Lily (Day) Lily (Lilium Croceum) Lily (Martagon) Lily (Red Lily of Constantinople, from Gerard's Herball) Lily (Small, Alstraemeria) Lily (White Water) Lily (Yellow Water) Magnolia Marrow (Vegetable) Meadow Crane's Bill Medlar Monk's Hood (or Common Wolf's-bane) Nasturtium Nut, Hazel Ox-eye (Great Flowered) Pea (Everlasting) Pear Persicaria (Pink) Plantain (Broad-leaved) Plantain (Buck's horn) Plum Poppy (Sea) Potato Primrose (Evening) Rice Rose, Hip of (Rosa indica) Rose (Small-leaved sweet briar) Sea Gilloflower (or Thrift) Sea Holly Sea Kale Sea Poppy Single Hollyhock Strawberry Tree (or Arbutus) Thrift (or Sea Gilloflower) Tomato Traveller's Joy Various Treatment of Leaves for Surface Patterns Vegetable Marrow Vetch (Meadow) Woade (Great Bastard) Wolf's-bane (or Monk's Hood) Wheat (Blew Turky) or Indian Corn White Columbine White Water Lily Yellow Water Lily

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