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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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at Nyn Hall, near Barnet,who received living plants from Sidney Cove, whichhave not yet flowered. The feeds brought to thiscountry have never vegetated. Fig. 2. So that, whatever divergences of opinion may have existed on things ingeneral in the minds of the white settlers and the black inhabitants of those earlydays, there was at least one consensus of opinion betwean them, and that anartistic one, viz., their aesthetic estimate of the Warat?h. No one has ever yetproduced a work on the artistic side of our aborigines, because it has been generallyaccepted that they possessed little (if any) such pleasing character as aesthet-icism in their whole nature. Here at least is one instance of its occurrence thatmay perhaps have been overlooked. - The plant, which is known by this name, was, of course, found in those daysaround Sydney, but it has since been discovered to have a much wider geograph-ical distribution, for it occurs in the coast district from the Clyde River to the APPLIED ART.
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The New South Wales Waratah iTelopea speciosissima, R.Br.) A reproduction by chromatic photography of the hand-coloured plate by Sowerby, in Smiths Botany of New Holland, published in 1793. Fig. II. APPLIED ART. Hunter and on the Dividing Range. It is very plentiful in certain jjarts ol theBlue Mountains, as, for instance, the road from Leura to Mount Hay. The Victorian Waratah has, perhaps, a greater range than the New SouthWales species, whilst the Tasmanian is also fairly well distributed in that island.These two are fully described under their respective headings. New South Wales, then, has not a monopoly of the Waratah, ior, as statedabove, it is found in three out of the six States ol the Commonwealth, but at thesame time it must be remembered that it does not occur in any other quarter ofthe globe, so that the expression the land c the Waratah is applicable onlyto Australia. The extent to which the Waratah has been used in Decorati\( Art sinceits first discovery clearly demonst

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