Flowers and Plants for Designers and Schools

Abstract

IF designers could be produced by the study of books upon plant form there ought to be a large and flourishing crop of them, since so many elaborate works have appeared on this subject addressed to the supposed needs of such artists. Every designer of any originality, however, feels the necessity of providing his own raw material, and what is suggestive and valuable to one may by no means prove equally so to another. The designer's best reference library is, of course, Nature; but Nature is always changing her dress, and her wealth of floral pattern is transformed with each season, so that unless we presuppose good opportunities combined with immense industry on the part of the artist, he must occasionally run short of working notes, and may be glad of the help of a herbal or a book which will give him the essential facts of the form, growth, general appearance, and structure of particular plants and flowers with which he is not familiar.

Flowers and Plants for Designers and Schools.

By Henry Irving E. F. Strange. Pp. 95. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.) Price 10s. 6d. net.