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\" And purple all the ground with vernal flowers，
Bring the rathe primrose that forgotton dies，
The tufted crow-toe， and pale jessamine，
The white pink. and the pans)， freked with jet，
The glowing violet，
The musk-rose， and the well-attir d woodbine，
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head，
And ever3， flower that embroider)， wears.\"
John Milton
It is impossible to imagine a world without paintings of the Old Masters like Rembrandt
flowers The most arid of urban landscapes， without their lilies and tulips. Think， too， of
the driest of deserts， the most frozen of Arctic the Jacobean embroideries full of fanciful
tundra is brightened with some kind of blos- flowers and fat buds ready to pop open --
sore at some point during the year. A vast surely what Milton was referring to in his
body of poetry attests to the fact that man poetry. The Jacobean works were no doubt
cannot remain unmoved in the face of such influenced by the publication of tediously
beauty; even the most melancholy of poets carved woodcuts of rare herbs and plants.
have praised the affect of flowers upon the (Many have been reissued， at least in part， by
observerl modern publishers， and are an excellent
Flowers have been the inspiration for artists source for modern designers.)
since the cave painters. Van Gogh painted
lively bouquets of sunflowers to brighten his
garret m Paris; try to imagine the still life
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