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Robert Fortune
Scottish
Scientist
Born:
Sep 16
,
1812
Died:
Apr 13
,
1880
Branches
Chinese
Gardens
High
Plants
Which
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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, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
Robert Fortune
Gardening
Sometimes
Plants
Year
Flower
Trees
States
Plum
Case
Thrown
Freely
Make
Often
After
Which
Little
Then
Vigorous
Inclination
Peach
Growth
Flowering
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 grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
Robert Fortune
High
High Price
Small
Variety
Price
Generally
Pine
Very
Prized
Stone
Chinese
Manner
Much
Species
As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.
Robert Fortune
Better
Rest
Before
Pay
Visit
Pretty
Both
Open
Had
Observed
Fail
Along
Houses
Parts
Passed
Than
Did
Shops
Behind
Wherever
Little
Japanese
Lower
Gardens
Streets
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
Robert Fortune
Art
Great
Nature
Power
Exhausted
Seem
Struggles
Generally
Until
Powers
She
Yields
Quietly
While
Against
Measure
Her
Treatment
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
Robert Fortune
Doubt
Imitated
Out
No Doubt
Idea
Well
Islands
Been
Rocky
Worked
Gardens
Suggested
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Robert Fortune
Doors
Nothing
Charcoal
Kind
Windows
Fires
Sheds
Houses
Quantity
Up
The Doors
Stop
Common
Straw
Things
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
Robert Fortune
Love
Gardening
People
Marked
High
Feature
Both
Low
Flowers
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
Robert Fortune
Time
Side
Those
Cases
Stem
Main
Checked
Most
Parts
Were
Encouraged
Branches
Same
Same Time
Where
Form
Process
Which
Then
Production
Sap
Zigzag
Twisted
Flow
Desired
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 a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.
Robert Fortune
Tree
Evidently
Miniature
Out
High
About
Stem
Had
Feet
Came
Branches
Six
Size
Aged
Manner
Regular
Appearance
Symmetrical
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.
Robert Fortune
Business
Wealth
Our
London
About
More
More Or Less
Generally
Smaller
Smallest
According
Than
Less
Gardens
Dozen
Extensive
Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.
Robert Fortune
Good
Eyes
Added
Bent
Latter
More
Purpose
Generally
Readily
Altogether
Representation
Form
Afterwards
Really
Chosen
Tongue
Desired
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