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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…
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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields…
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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and…
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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price;…
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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,…
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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided…
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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…
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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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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but…
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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and…
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The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of…
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The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps…
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds…
— Wang Wei
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom…
— Coventry Patmore
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
— Robert Breault
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent…
— Unknown Author
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I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
— Fiona Apple
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You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of…
— Li Bai
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I'm not much of a beer drinker, you know what I drink? Peach wine coolers.
— Joe Teti
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly…
— John Ruskin
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