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Visitors to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass models of flowers have noticed that new cases have recently been constructed in the large entry. These new exhibition cases are for the reception of specimens illustrating the vegetable products useful to man. Thus space will be afforded for the illustrations which are designed to exhibit all of the relations of plants to each other and to their surroundings. Probably it will require at least two years more for the installation of the specimens which show the effect of differences in soil and exposure upon the forms of plants...
...more recent additions to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass flowers are now in place in the cases, and serve to indicate even more fully than the previous consignments, the range of artistic skill possessed by the Blaschkas. In the management of color the artists have surmounted difficulties which might have been regarded as insuperable, but in all instances the various tints, hues and shades are perfect copies of the originals, and to this is added the representation of texture...
...instalment of the wonderful Blaschka glass flowers has arrived at the Agassiz Museum...
...Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants and Flowers, in the Botanical Museum, is open to the public on week-days from 9 o'clock till 5, and on Sundays from 1 o'clock till...
...museum has lately received some important accessions, notably from Japan, consisting of eastern food and medicinal plants, including typical Asiatic fruits and drugs. Cases are new building to hold this Economic Collection. A bronze memorial tablet has recently been placed in the room of the Ware collection of Blaschka glass modals of flowers. As yet he collection is unarranged. but after the first of February when a large instalment of models is expected, the whole collection will be arranged and label...