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--- Travellers' Writings    ADDED TO 06/03/2011; NEW 05/23/2002
-------- NOT in Marco Polo (1254-1324)    ADDED TO 05/28/2016; NEW 08/11/2005
-------- Portuguese missionary letter (1598, from 1582)    ADDED TO 07/12/2017; NEW 04/2005
-------- Portuguese/Japanese dictionary (1603)    ADDED TO 05/28/2016; NEW 05/2000
-------- Fr. Pedro Chirino, S.J. (fl. 1604)    ADDED TO 05/28/2016; NEW 05/2000
-------- Peter Mundy (fl. 1600-1667)    ADDED TO 06/04/2017; NEW 12/26/2008
-------- George Meister (1653-1713)    ADDED TO 12/16/2017; NEW 02/05/2007
-------- Englebert Kaempfer (1651-1716)    ADDED TO 05/28/2016; NEW 05/2000
-------- Fr. Pierre Martial Cibot (1727-1780)    ADDED TO 05/28/2016; NEW 05/2000
-------- Lord Macartney (1737-1806)    ADDED TO 12/10/2017; NEW 04/30/2005
-------- Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest (1739-1801)    ADDED TO 05/28/2016; NEW 05/11/2011
-------- George Henry Mason (1770-1851)    ADDED TO 03/20/2021; NEW 04/28/2018
-------- Johann Heinrich Seidel (1744-1815)    ADDED TO 04/28/2018; NEW 03/16/2008
-------- Henri Leonard Jean Baptiste Bertin (1719 or 1720-1792)    NEW 02/12/2009
-------- Dr. Clarke Abel (1780-1826)    ADDED TO 03/26/2007; NEW 11/2000
-------- John Livingstone (c.1770 - 1838?)    ADDED TO 07/23/2022; NEW 11/2000
-------- Izaak (Isaac) Titsingh (1745-1812)    ADDED TO 08/14/2009; NEW 11/12/2000
-------- James L. Drummond (1783-1853)    NEW 09/02/2009
-------- James Main (fl. 1794)    NEW 10/27/2007
-------- George Bennett (1804-1893)    ADDED TO 12/16/2017; NEW 02/09/2007
-------- Germain Felix Meylan (1785-1831)     ADDED TO 03/25/2010; NEW 02/08/2009
-------- Sir John Francis Davis (1795-1890)    NEW 02/25/2007
-------- Nathan Dunn (1782-1844)    ADDED TO 09/03/2017; NEW 06/28/2009
-------- Philipp Von Siebold (1796-1866)    ADDED TO 10/10/2005; NEW 11/2000
-------- Capt. Granville Gower Loch (1813-1853)    NEW 07/14/2010
-------- Anne Pratt (1806-1893)    NEW 07/03/2010
-------- Robert Fortune (1812-1880)    ADDED TO 03/03/2026; NEW 2000  **
-------- Henry Charles Sirr (1807-1872)    NEW 02/20/2009
-------- Osmond Tiffany (1823-1895)    NEW 01/19/2009
-------- Com. Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858)    ADDED TO 08/14/2005; NEW 10/06/2001
-------- Edward Blyth (1810-1873) letter to Charles Darwin     NEW 04/22/2008
-------- Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888)    ADDED TO 08/15/2010; NEW 11/27/2004
-------- John M. Tronson (fl. 1859)    NEW 08/13/2010
-------- Pierre Rossier (1829-bef.1898), Earliest-Known Photograph    ADDED TO 12/28/2009; NEW 02/16/2008
-------- J.M.W. Silver (fl. 1867)    NEW 02/20/2005
-------- John Thomson (1837-1921), Earliest-Known Photograph from China    ADDED TO 03/04/2007; NEW 06/13/2005
-------- Francis Hall (1822-1902)    ADDED TO 02/16/2008; NEW 11/2000
-------- Anson Burlingame (1820-1870) and the Daimyo Oak    ADDED TO 12/06/2025; NEW 03/11/2010  **
-------- Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff (1825-1882)    NEW 07/03/2009
-------- William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928)    ADDED TO 08/21/2009; NEW 11/29/2005
-------- Mrs. S. M. Lee (<1838-?)    NEW 04/01/2010
-------- Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904)    ADDED TO 09/25/2005; NEW 06/01/2005
-------- Johann Justus Rein (1835-1918)     NEW 11/2000
-------- Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925)    ADDED TO 09/28/2005; NEW 11/2000
-------- Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856-1928)    ADDED TO 06/25/2006; NEW 01/11/2005
-------- Sir Francis Taylor Piggott (1852-1925)    NEW 08/09/2010
-------- Henry de Varigny (1855-1934)    NEW 08/15/2010
-------- Emily S. Patton (fl. 1896)    ADDED TO 05/21/2005; NEW 04/30/2005
-------- Mrs. Robert C. Morris (c.1868 - ?)    NEW 05/15/2010
-------- Suburo Eida (fl. 1900-1910)    ADDED TO 07/23/2022; NEW 05/27/2010
-------- Francis "Frank" Brinkley (1841-1912)    NEW 05/26/2018
-------- Mary E. Unger (fl. 1901)    ADDED TO 02/27/2007; NEW 02/05/2005
-------- Nicholas Senn (1844-1908)    NEW 07/04/2009
-------- Pierre Loti (1850-1923)    NEW 02/04/2009
-------- Walter Del Mar (1862-1944)    NEW 02/04/2009
-------- Katharine Schuyler Baxter (fl. 1895-1904)    NEW 03/22/2005
-------- Anna C. Hartshorne (1860-1957)    NEW 02/04/2009
-------- Reginald J. Farrer (1880-1920)     NEW 11/2000
-------- Douglas Sladen (1856-1947)     NEW 11/19/2010
-------- Sakae Shioya (fl. 1906)     NEW 06/19/2009
-------- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)    NEW 08/31/2009
-------- Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)    ADDED TO 05/08/2018; NEW 11/2004
-------- John Finnemore (fl. 1911)    NEW 02/20/2005
-------- Marcus B. Huish, LL.B. (1845-1921)    NEW 07/29/2001
-------- Annie L. Henley (fl. 1911-1912)    NEW 06/10/2018
-------- Richard Gordon Smith (1858-1918)    ADDED TO 03/22/2005; NEW 11/2000
------------- The Great Pine Tree at Karasaki    NEW 03/26/2005
-------- Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham (1842-1914)    NEW 02/03/2008
-------- Florence Du Cane (fl. 1908-1913)    ADDED TO 06/08/2006; NEW 07/2001
-------- Isabel Anderson (1877-1948)    NEW 01/31/2009
-------- Alfred Marshall Hitchcock (1868-1941)    NEW 01/01/2009
-------- Joseph I.C. Clarke (1846-1925)    ADDED TO 11/24/2009; NEW 06/10/2007
-------- J.W. (John William) Robertson Scott (1866-1962)    NEW 02/20/2005
-------- Dorothy Graham (fl. 1938)    NEW 07/18/2005
-------- Samuel Newsom (fl. 1939)    NEW 07/2001
-------- Adrienne Moore (fl. 1937-1942)    NEW 06/03/2011
--- English Pre-1945 Bonsai Article Bibliography    ADDED TO 12/21/2024; NEW 09/1999
--------------- "The Chinese Method of Dwarfing Trees" in The Genesee Farmer (1835)    NEW 12/21/2010
--------------- "Agriculture and Gardening in Japan," The Saturday Magazine (1835)    NEW 01/22/2009
--------------- "The Chinese Method of Dwarfing Trees" in The American Gardener's Magazine (1836)    NEW 12/21/2010
--------------- "Dwarfed Plants," Edwards's Botanical Register (1845)    NEW 07/08/2010
--------------- "Chinese Method of Dwarfing Trees," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1846)    ADDED TO 12/15/2018; NEW 12/17/2010
--------------- "Freaks Upon Flowers, Fruits, and Trees," Chambers' Edinburgh Journal (1848)    NEW 05/27/2010
--------------- "Chinese Gardening," The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine (1848)    NEW 12/29/2018
-------- Hickok, Rev. H.  "Visit to the Fati Gardens" The Ladies' Repository (1849)    NEW 12/26/2005
--------------- "Dwarf Plants," Peterson's Magazine (1850)    NEW 12/16/2010
--------------- "Our Phantom Ship -- Japan," The International (1851)    NEW 12/12/2004
--------------- "Consul Harris and Japan," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1859)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Dwarfing of Trees," Scientific American (1860)    NEW 11/07/2004
--------------- "The Lecture Season," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1860)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Japanese Gardening," Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener (1861)    NEW 01/20/2018
--------------- "The Horticulture of the Far East," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1862)    NEW 11/26/2017
---------------  "How the Chinese Make Dwarf Trees," Scientific American (1862)    ADDED TO 08/28/2025; NEW 12/12/2004
-------- Murray, Andrew  The Pines and Firs of Japan (1863)    NEW 06/10/2007
--------------- "How the Chinese make Dwarf Trees," Scientific American (1864)    ADDED TO 01/22/2022; NEW 12/12/2004
--------------- "News Item, Chinese Letter," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1864)    NEW 03/11/2006
-------- Loudon, Jane (Webb)  "Dwarfing," The Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden (1865, Eighth Edition)    NEW 03/15/2008
--------------- "Dwarf Plants," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1868)    NEW 02/17/2006
-------- Simmons, D.B.  "Five Years in Japan," The Galaxy (1868)    NEW 12/11/2004
-------- Conway, M.D.  "South-Coast Saunterings in England," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1869)    NEW 12/15/2004
--------------- "Dwarf Trees," The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art... (1870)    ADDED TO 04/06/2013; NEW 11/12/2000
--------------- "Dwarf Trees in Japanese Art," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1872)     NEW 12/16/2018
--------------- "Dwarf Trees in Japanese Art," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1872)     NEW 12/16/2018
--------------- "VISIT TO JAPAN.--GARDEN CULTURE" in The Gardener (1873)     NEW 03/03/2026
--------------- "Japanese Dwarf Trees," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1875)     NEW 05/15/2010
--------------- "A Chinese Dwarf-tree in Paris," Nature (1875)    ADDED TO 09/02/2009; NEW 12/26/2005
-------- Brooks, Noah  "Some Pictures from Japan," Scribners Monthly (1875)    NEW 11/23/2004
-------- Mitchell, Donald G.  "In and about the Fair," Scribners Monthly (1876)    ADDED TO 07/22/2006; NEW 11/23/2004
--------------- "Characteristics of the International Fair, V," Atlantic Monthly (1876)    NEW 02/05/2005
-------- Quin, C.W. "The Horticultural Comprachicos of Japan at the Paris Exhibition," The Garden (1878)    ADDED TO 03/05/2003
--------------- "Japanese dwarfed and trained plants," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1878)    NEW 02/17/2006
--------------- "Japanese Dwarfed Trees," The World of Wonders (1883)    NEW 08/29/2009
--------------- "Pigmy Trees and Miniature Landscapes," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1884)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Dwarf Trees of China," Health (1884)    NEW 11/10/2010
--------------- "Miniature Trees," The Agassiz Association Journal (1885)    NEW 07/01/2010
-------- van Rensselaer, M.G.  "Japanese Gardening," Garden and Forest (1889)     NEW 10/15/2004
--------------- A review of The Industries of Japan by J.J. Rein, Garden and Forest (1889)    NEW 11/2000
--------------- "Dwarf Trees at the Paris Exhibition," Garden and Forest (1889)    ADDED TO 04/27/2014; NEW 12/2004
-------- Cumming, George  "Japanese Dwarf Plants at Paris," Garden and Forest (1890)    NEW 10/15/2004
--------------- "Fantastic Gardening -- Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly," Current Literature (1890)    ADDED TO 06/10/2018; NEW 06/14/2009
-------- Dana, Richard Henry  "A Voyage on the Grand Canal of China," Atlantic Monthly (1891)    NEW 02/05/2005
--------------- "Demise of 300 year old Cedar," Garden and Forest (1893)    ADDED TO 11/24/2008; NEW 02/19/2002
-------- Gibson, W. Hamilton  "Foreground and Vista at the Fair," Scribner's Magazine (1893)    NEW 12/20/2004
-------- Robbins, M.C.  "Gardening at the World's Fair," Garden and Forest (1893)    NEW 11/07/2004
-------- Bailey, H.L.  "The Columbian Exposition, Japanese Horticulture at the Fair," Garden and Forest (1893)    NEW 11/07/2004
--------------- "Dwarfing Plants in Japan," Garden and Forest (1893)    ADDED TO 11/01/2009; NEW 01/2001
--------------- "The Park Next Year," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1893)    NEW 03/11/2006
-------- Comley, Kames  "My Visit to Japan," (Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society (1894)    NEW 08/13/2010
-------- Parsons, Alfred  "Autumn in Japan," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1895)    NEW 11/07/2004
--------------- "A Trip to the Orient," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1896)    NEW 06/24/2009
--------------- "Contorted Coniferous Trees," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1896)    NEW 12/16/2018
-------- Matthews, Herbert  "Curious Clipped Trees," Strand magazine (1898)    ADDED TO 07/12/2004; NEW 11/2000
--------------- "Japanese Dwarf Trees, Sell for High Prices," American Gardening (1898)    ADDED TO 07/15/2018; NEW 08/15/2010
--------------- "Gallery and Studio," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1898)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "How It Is Done," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1898)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Dwarf Japanese Trees," The Sun (1899)    NEW 04/27/2014
--------------- "Scholarship and Modern Problems," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1899)    NEW 03/11/2006
-------- Roberts, W.  "Dwarfed Japanese Trees," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1899)    NEW 09/20/2020
-------- Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah  "The Streets of Peking," The Century (1899)    NEW 12/11/2004
--------------- "Japanese Dwarf Trees," Success With Flowers (1899)    NEW 11/12/2010
--------------- "Japanese Outdone in Dwarfing Trees," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1899)    ADDED TO 11/08/2010; NEW 06/24/2009
--------------- "How the Japanese Grow the Dwarfed Trees in Jardinieres," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1899)    ADDED TO 06/09/2019; NEW 12/29/2018
---------------- "Fine Park Display," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1900)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Japanese Dwarf Trees," Scientific American Supplement (1900)    NEW 06/2000
-------- Blight, Robert (ed.)  "Among the Plants: Garden, Field and Forest," Current Lit. (1900)
--------------- "How to Make Dwarf Trees For Table," The Queensland Agricultural Journal (1900)    ADDED TO 11/05/2022; NEW 06/30/2009
--------------- "Japanese Table Decorations," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1900)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Tiny Trees," The Mercury (Holbart, Tasmania) (1900)    NEW 01/01/2013
-------- Bedford, Cornelia E.  "Elfin Trees," Harper's Bazar [sic] (1900)    NEW 11/1999
-------- Maude, Athol  "Miniature Trees," Pearson's Magazine (1900)    ADDED TO 02/15/2020; NEW 02/01/2009
-------- Beede, Vincent Van Marter  "A Bit of Japan in America," The Chautauquan, (1900)    NEW 06/15/2009
--------------- "How Trees Are Dwarfed," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1900)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Dwarfing of Trees," The Century Supplement to the Dictionary of Gardening (1900)    ADDED TO 06/15/2009; NEW 09/25/2005
--------------- "The Wonderful Chrysanthemum Show at Prospect Park," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1900)    NEW 03/11/2006
-------- Clark, Francis  "A Famous Japanese Statesman," The Independent (1901)    ADDED TO 06/14/2014; NEW 06/25/2009
-------- Duncan, Frances  "Japanese Plants in American Gardens," Atlantic Monthly (1901)
---------------  "The Cult of the Pigmy Tree," The House Beautiful (1901)    NEW 06/14/2009
-------- Unger, Alfred  "Dwarf Japanese Trees," The Garden (1901)    NEW 08/07/2010
-------- Tsumura, Toichi, M.F.S.  "Dwarf Trees," Japan Society: Transactions (1901)    ADDED TO 10/05/2009; NEW 06/2000
--------------- "Tiny Fruit on Miniature Trees," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1902)    NEW 09/02/2019
--------------- "Sumptuous Studio Just Opened Causes Sensation In Art Circles," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1902)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "The Dwarf Trees of Japan," The Home Library of Entertainment Instruction and Amusement (1902)    NEW 09/28/2005
--------------- "How to Dwarf Trees," Australian Town and Country Journal (1902)    NEW 12/09/2018
--------------- "Dwarfed Trees of Japan," Australian Town and Country Journal (1902)    NEW 12/15/2018
--------------- "Wife of London's New Lord Mayor," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1902)    NEW 01/08/2007
--------------- "Dwarf Trees For Table Use," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1902)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Dwarf Japanese Trees, Climbers, and Shrubs," The Gardeners' Chronicle (1903)    NEW 11/10/2010
--------------- "Lady McEacharn At Home," The Argus (1903)    ADDED TO 11/12/2016; NEW 12/11/2012
--------------- Dwarf Grafted Blood Orange Trees to Palermo," Journal of Royal Horticultural Society (1905)    NEW 08/22/2009
--------------- "Japanese Dwarf Trees," The Garden (1906)    NEW 11/12/2010
-------- Davidson, H.C.  "Queer Fashions in Gardening," The Country-Side (1906)    NEW 08/15/2010
--------------- "Dwarf Trees," Nelson's Encyclopædia (1907)    NEW 07/01/2010
--------------- "Japanese Sand Pictures," Good Housekeeping (1907)    NEW 08/06/2010
--------------- "The Dwarf-Tree Culture of Japan," Windsor Magazine (1907)    NEW 10/04/2008
--------------- "The 'Little Trees' of Japan," The Wonder Book of Wonders (1908)    NEW 01/15/2004
-------- Berger, H.H.  "Japanese Dwarf Trees," St. Nicholas, a magazine... (1909)    NEW 11/2000
--------------- "Dwarf Trees in Japan," Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)    NEW 12/26/2005
--------------- "How to Make Dwarf Trees," Scientific American (1913)
--------------- "Dwarf Trees of Japan," Technical World Magazine (1913)    NEW 07/01/2010
--------------- "Japanese Table Tree," Manti Messenger (1916)    NEW 03/11/2006
--------------- "Reverse Method of Nature,"  The Loveland Reporter (1920)    NEW 09/02/2019
--------------- "Making Japanese Miniature Gardens,"  American Forestry (1920)    NEW 11/27/1999
--------------- "How Japanese Dwarf Trees Are Raised," Scientific American (1921)    NEW 11/27/1999
-------- Newbecker, Richard  "Hints on the Growing of Japanese Dwarf Trees," The Flower Grower (1921)    NEW 05/13/2010
-------- Brownfield, Marion  "How to Make a Japanese Dish-Garden," House Beautiful (1921)    NEW 11/2000
-------- Sakamoto, Kiyosh  "Bonsai: Culture of Dwarfed Trees in Japan," in Gardeners' Chronicle of America (1922)    NEW 11/26/2022
--------------- "Forest of Odd Dwarf Trees Grown by 'Surgery'" Popular Science Monthly (1929)    NEW 08/23/2004
-------- Hansen, Albert A.  "Dwarfed Plants, They Are Normal In All But Size," Nature (1930)    ADDED TO 02/20/2009; NEW 08/01/2005
-------- McClure, F.A.  "Methods and Materials of Chinese Table Plant Culture," Lingnan Science Journal (1933)    NEW 09/21/2020
--------------- "Dwarfing Horticultural Process" in The Oak Creek Times (1939)    NEW 09/02/2019
--------------- "Just In!  JAPANESE DWARF TREES!," Advertisement in The Argus (1939)    ADDED TO 01/05/2013; NEW 01/02/2013
--- "From Colonial Times to WW II: America Peeks at Bonsai"   NEW 06/1999
-------- Official Catalogue of the Japanese Section, International Exposition 1876  NEW 11/12/2000
--- Other Old Photographs of Dwarf Potted Trees    ADDED TO 01/11/2025; NEW 10/13/2005
--- Post-1945 Bonsai Article Bibliography    ADDED TO 12/07/2025; NEW 09/1999
--- French Pre-1945 Bonsai Article Bibliography    ADDED TO 09/20/2020; NEW 09/19/2006
-------- Jouan, Henri  "Coup-D'OEil Sur L'Histoire Naturelle Du Japon," Mémoires de la Société nationale (1868)    NEW 09/08/2011
-------- Carrière, E.-A.  "Un Grand Arbre Nanisé," Revue Horticole (1874)    NEW 09/07/2009
-------- Littré, Émile  Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, Supplément (1877)    NEW 11/15/2009
-------- Carrière, E.-A.  "Essai Su L'Horticulture Japonaise," Revue Horticole (1878)    NEW 10/06/2007
--------------- "Les Arbres Nains et Monstrueux, Au Japon et En Chine," La Nature (1881)    NEW 09/07/2009
-------- Carrière, E.-A.  "Japonaiseries," Revue Horticole (1889)    NEW 10/16/2007
-------- Vallot, Joseph  "Causes phyiologiques... des arbres... japonaises," Bulletin de la Société de Botanique de France (1889)    NEW 09/10/2009
-------- Maury, Paul  "Sur les procédés employés par les Japonais...," Bulletin de la Société de Botanique de France (1889)    ADDED TO 12/09/2018; NEW 09/18/2009
-------- Rodigas, Ém.  "Arbres nains du Japon," Bulletins d'arboriculture (1889)    NEW 09/07/2009
--------        "L'Horticulture A L'Exposition Universelle De 1889," Bulletin de la Société d'horticulture de Cherbourg (1889)    NEW 09/07/2009
--------        "Les procédés de nanisation des arbres au Japon," Revue Scientifique (Revue Rose) (1894)    NEW 11/15/2009
--- "Dwarfed Trees in 1930 Czech Article by Dr. John St. Walk"    ADDED TO 04/30/2016; NEW 08/27/2011

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