DECORA.TIVE FLOWER STUDIES.
Decorative Flower Studies. By J. Foord. (B. T. Batsford. 25s.) —This book will be of much use to designers and workers when the living flowers are not obtainable. The studies are beautifully and accurately drawn, and in most cases the character of the plant is sympathetically realised. The Oriental poppy is very good, and so are the carnations and the pink peony, among many others. Mr. Foord has, however, not been quite so successful with the horse chestnut and the marsh mari- gold. His method of drawing with fine distinct lines is not so suitable to the ample softness of chestnut blossoms as it is, for instance, to the delicate shapes of a sweet pea. We hope Kr. Foord will give As more of these studies. A volume of decora- tive fruits and of leaves and grasses would be very welcome. There is a short account of each flower, telling of its origin and of any interesting facts about it, often from old herbalists, Buck as that lavender at the end of the sixteenth century "Was growing in great plentie in his Majesties private garden at
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