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118 The Floral King.
body, or the eyes in the head, or that a bird has
two wings, and two feet; neither regarding plants
that the root is dark, the leaves green, the flower
pretty, or that the fruit succeeds the blooming,
but only bring forth traits of distinction.
“With the figures in the same manner. If I
compare the first figures ex gy. Cube, in the
Horto sanitatis with Ehret’s in horto Cliffortiana, the
former might be regarded as goblins compared with
angels.
“The figures in the fifteenth seculo required
superscription, if they were to be recognised. A
hare was painted and above it was written that it
was to represent a bear. They made pictures after
other people’s description, without seeing the object,
so that one now only feels loathing for the book
from seeing the figures.
“In the beginning of the sixteenth seculo the
figures were still wretched, but before the end of it,
they became more generally endurable, particularly
since good masters began cutting in box-wood.
“* At the commencement of the seventeenth seculo,
when they saw that the fine lines could not so
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