Excerpt from The Teacher of Flowers and Fruit Painting If you will take my advice you will copy with pencil, flowers and fruit from nature as much as possible, as it would not be quite necessary to begin copying them with colors. Pencil draw ing will be sufficient and will be the proper thing to give you a general idea of the shape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.