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