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• As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty…
• Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields…
• Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and…
• A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price;…
• Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,…
• Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided…
• The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet…
• The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all…

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