Ornamental treatment consists largely in the deliberate disregard of pictorial considera tion. There is nature still in the strawberry border above, although nature is not very strictly followed. The leaves in particular have been subjected to a process of orna mental treatment, similar to that employed on Plates 13 and 14, and suggested by the forms of Greek brushwork.

The treatment of the thistle in the German wood-carving shown on Plate 91, is so essen tially ornamental that one scarcely knows whether to describe it as a rendering of the thistle or a development of the scroll. It shows in either case the strong influence of tradition.

Ghiberti's poppy on Plate 71, although the influence of the Classic scroll is very apparent in it, is not so much a departure from the acanthus scroll as a treatment of the poppy somewhat in the manner of the scroll.