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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella, ill · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 106

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difference between theperfect specimen with its boughs bent down by theweight of the laws which have trained it and pricedit at some hundred yen, or the failure by itsside, beautiful and wonderful, with all its imperfec-tions an exquisite and dainty thing, priced at asmany pence. Perhaps one of the… … NURSERY GARDENS 61 the sales which take place at night in the streetsof Kyoto on certain days of the month. Theplants are arranged on stalls down each side of anarrow street, and the intending purchaser has tofight his way through a dense crowd to choose hisplants. No lover of dwarf trees should…

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