CLASS PLANTS.
In the University Museum of Harvard is a collection of plants modelled in glass. It is a wonderful collection, both in size and in the beauty and accuracy of the work. It includes flowering plants, from the simplest to the most elaborate and complex, being" done in the .natural colour of th<f, particular flower.lmotitelldd, 'with buds, leaves, and stems*. The plants were modelled by Leopold Blaschka, founder of the art of modelling specimens .in glass. In 1853 he majj^ivoyage to the United States, iggfl^HVawings of to^^Bynvertebj^|^^^^^^|fcp collec^^^^HkfcuAj^^H^^^^^BCted in
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 May 1913, Page 7
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