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High Quotes by Robert Fortune
- A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally…
- 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…
- One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
- So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his…
- 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…
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