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                                                                      104										98
                                                                      
                                                                      	All is exquisitely worked and the leaves are pushed
                                                                      hither and thither lightly by the swords and sceptres
                                                                      which gives this capital peculiar grace.  Its ribs are
                                                                      most perfectly rounded.
                                                                         The 17th.  On same plan exactly; the lobes a little more ridged
                                                                         The 19th.  Something more modern in look.  Great pains have been
                                                                      taken about it.  The leaves sweep more in their flow;  the
                                                                      angle leaves have seven ribs for five;  and as this
                                                                      gives two more great divisions, each div[s]ision is shorter
                                                                      and has a lobe less;  the effect is less graceful;  They
                                                                      are more modulated in surface;  and the ribs are not
                                                                      only morefine, but have a different character about the
                                                                      joint.  Fig 1 p 52 is the general skeleton of the 19th 
                                                                      angle leaf;  Fig 2 its upper forks real size.  Fig 3 the
                                                                      forks of the 5th real size (I say so in note, but they are
	  Note on section A. The projecting mass is the limiting             not thick enough)
outline within which the figure and leaf are worked.                  The vegetable organization is thus much more prononcé in
                                                                      the 5th.  The diminution of the stem as it forks is most
                                                                      adm rably observed in both.
                                                                        The 25th.  (Seasons)  This is the best preserved and most valuable
                                                                      of the series.  The groins of the lobes drawn from its
                                                                      hroad leaft at p 53 1 are explanatory of the system of
                                                                      them all.
                                                                        The Third Order.  Sections A through side with figure B. through 
                                                                      angle;  C. flower band larger 6 w. St M.
                                                                      The leaves have all the form of lobe down below by Noah

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