"Dwarf Trees" from John Finnemore's
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan


 
      Peeps at Many Lands: Japan (1911):

      Many of the temple gardens are of very great beauty and interest.  There can be seen many of the marvels of Japanese gardening--tiny dwarf trees, hundreds of years old, and yet only a few inches high, or tall shrubberies cut and trained to represent a great junk in full sail, or the figure of a god or hero.  1


NOTES

1       Finnemore, John   Peeps at Many Lands: Japan (London: Adam and Charles Black. Project Gutenberg, June 2, 2003 [EBook #7936] ), Chapter XVI, Tea-Houses and Temples.  Includes twelve illustrations by Ella Du Cane.

See a tree in the shape of a junk in Wonder Book.



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