The courtyard opposite is decorated with a towering wall of giant glass flowers.

It has so many scrolls and curlicues and glass flowers.

Most visitors know this, the museum's most popular exhibition, as simply the glass flowers.

"We could glue things back together with just plain old glue, but then they wouldn't be glass flowers anymore," he said.

Mr. Basseches, the executive director, said the glass flowers were the biggest draw for the 120,000 visitors to the museum each year.

They were larger than marbles and some even had tiny gardens of little glass flowers inside.

Some of the glass flowers were so small that Jonathan had to study the paperweight to see them.

She rose, carrying her glass, and went to examine a bowl of glass flowers.

Lamb, dazed, is lying across the wide-paneled glass flower at the center of the glass.

For example, the glass flowers of the Indian pipe are pale; one bud is bent over.