"There are about a dozen of these gardens,……" — Robert Fortune
"There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries."
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22 Quotes by Robert Fortune
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As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of…
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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she…
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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the…
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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very…
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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a…
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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this;…
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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or…
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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries,…
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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the…
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The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the…
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The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely…
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We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to…
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