[Fig. 139.]—The Carnation.
[Fig. 140.]—The Peony.
[Fig. 141.]—The Peach.
FOOTNOTES TO PART I:
[5] “The alphabet which we use at the present day has been traced back, in all its essential forms, to the ancient hieratic writing of Egypt of about the twenty-fifth century before Christ. It is directly derived from the Roman alphabet; the Roman, from a local form of the Greek; the Greek, from the Phœnician; the Phœnician, from the Egyptian hieratic. . . . We may without exaggeration . . . carry back the invention of Egyptian writing to six or seven thousand years before Christ.”—Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, “Greek and Latin Palæography,” pp. 1–2.
[6] Ibid., p. 196.
[7] “G. & L. Palæography,” p. 204. (Minuscules = “small letters.” Half-Uncials are sometimes distinguished, as “round minuscules”—p. 302.)