H, and then put into a cylindrical mould, I, with suitable internal recesses; and both cane and mould are thus submitted to a moderate heat. The selection of the colour of the canes depends upon the taste of the manufacturer: two to four white enamelled canes are chiefly used, alternately, with about half the number of coloured. The blower then prepares a solid ball of transparent flint Glass, K, which being deposited in contact with the various canes, at a welding heat, causes them to adhere. This solid ball is then released from the mould, as L, is reheated, and marvered, till the adhering projecting ornamental canes are rubbed into one uniform mass; the ball is next covered with a gathering of white glass, which must then be drawn to any size and length that may be required, by the same process as before described and illustrated. Should a spiral cane be preferred, the pucellas holds the apex, M, in a fixed position, while the ornamental mass, still adhering to the Glass-maker's iron, is revolved during the drawing, till the requisite twist is given. Where vases are formed of alternately coloured and enamel filigree canes, the above process is repeated, and the usual mode of blowing and manufacturing is followed; but the ball, K, must be hollow instead of solid, so that the filigree canes become, by marvering, &c., amalgamated with the flint Glass ball, and expand with it in its progress of manufacture.

The Venetian ball is a collection of waste pieces of filigree Glass conglomerated together, without regular design: this is packed into a pocket of transparent Glass, which is adhesively collapsed upon the interior mass by sucking up, producing