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- The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all…
- The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to…
- We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation…
- We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at…
- Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop…
- The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in…
- This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray