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Title: Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909 Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 Mackie, Samuel Joseph Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Nature (Aesthetics)
Publisher: London, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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low. Its English name is suggested by theslight musky smell of the foliage if pressed in the hand. TheMalvacece are chiefly tropical plants ; about six hundred species areknown, almost all possessing the mucilaginous character of ourBritish species, many yielding in addition a valuable fibre, andsome American and Asiatic species producing the well-knowncotton, a filamentous substance enveloping the seeds. Thehollyhock of our gardens also belongs to this family. The genericname, Malva, is derived from a Greek word signifying to soften, THE ADAPTABILITY OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS. 69 in allusion to the soothing effect of the greater number of thegenus, while the English name has clearly descended from theAnglo-Saxon malu. Drawings of the common mallow may beseen in F. L. vol. ii. 51 ; M. B. 54; P. F. 1 ; V. W. 393. Themusk mallow will be found in F. L. vol. iv. 50; T. N. O. 23. The Maple (Acer campestre) is generally met with as a smallhedgerow tree throughout England, but it is not common in
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Maple. either Scotland or Ireland. The wood, though small in section, isoften very beautifully veined, and thus becomes of service forfurniture, inlay, &c. The bark is exceedingly rough, full of deep yo ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. furrows, and very much resembling cork in its appearance. Thefruit is winged. The specific name, campestre, refers to thelocalities in which the plant may be found, the open fields;while the generic name, Acer, sharp or hard, in Celtic ac, has beenbestowed upon it from the toughness of the wood. It was exten-sively used by the ancient Britons in the fabrication of weapons ofwar—spikes, spears, and lance handles. The English nameevidently descends from the Saxon mapul-dre. We thus in thesefew words, Acer campestre, the maple, learn where the plant is to befound ; one of its striking features, the hardness of the wood ; andalso, from its Saxon name, the fact of its being one of our indi-genous shrubs. This has, from the beautiful forms of the leavesand frui

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