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The blooms and buds are of an orange colour with the outlines and detailing achieved by hatched lines in red.  The leaves are painted in two tones of pale green with modelling in a darker tone also in hatched and cross hatched lines.  The plant is painted directly onto the plain off-white paper ground and it is framed with strips of buff-coloured paper with black ruled outlines.  The main border is also plain in an ivory white colour with strips of grey-blue paper stuck along the edges of the page with two inner black ruled lines. The left hand side has a strip of beige woven textile added as a gutter for the binding of the album.  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