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Title: The Australian flora in applied art
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, Richard Thomas, 1854-1941
Subjects: Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms Telopea in art Flowers in art
Publisher: (Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Gove. printer)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Art will live long in the annals of New SouthWales technical education. Some of his works adorn the walls of our TechnicalCollege, but what is probably a complete collection of his originals is now onexhibition at this Museum, several of which are reproduced here. They area splendid proof of the fertility of his brain, for they cover original designsfrom our native fauna and flora in architecture, ironwork, wall-papers, glass,stained windows, jewehery, china, chandeliers, electric lights, tiles, horology, &c.,In all these branches of Technology, strength is given to his work by an absenceof fictitious details with which he appears to have had no dealings in hisbotanical elaborations. To the list of these names must now be added, that of Mr. C. Toms, artist ofthis Museum, and present Lecturer in Decorative Art at the Technical College,Sydney. I am also indebted to these three for the many conventional renderingsof the Waratah in the different trades branches. ^■^S« APPLIED ART.
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The Victorian Waratah (Telopea oieades, F. v. M.)Fig. HI. APPLIED ART. T7 (b) The Victorian Waratah. (Telopea oreades, F. v. M.)Figure III. HISTORICAL. This Waratah was first rectndcd l)y Baron von Mutllcr in iS6i, Ijeing dis-covered l)y him in theNangatta Mountains and Canus River District, Gi))psland,Victoria, so that although it has since been fouiul in soutiu-rn New South Wales,its original wide geographical distrilnition entitles it to be regarded as Victoriasown. DESCRIPTION OF PLANT. The species was originally descriljed as a shrul), but in the ranges of Gipps-land and the south-east corner of New South Wedes it attains tree size, the timberspecimens exhibited in this Museum beiug taken from a tree measuring over afoot in diameter at the butt. The Ijark is thin and moderately smooth, of a darkchocolate color. The leaves are obovate, oblong, or lanceolate, acute or obtuse,4 to 8 inches long, tapering into a long petiole, entira oi rarely with a few teethat the end, usually bluis

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