Eureka Reporter | 1904-05-13 | Page 6 | Dwarf Trees in Japan

IN JAPAN one 10 inches H gh may se year old and worth A japanese nursery garden is a revelation there on benches in rows sit tortured trees in their bowls or pans of faience their perfection is a marvel of patience requiring years tor its some times on man mil give as much as SO ie is attention to a single little cherry tree each curve each leaf each twig has its direction and reu late 1 by the most rigid and lal annc pies and to have an val e in janane e eyes a dwarf must i form at to the iron rules d down by the canons of taste in the days wl en Tolu gava iara ivied into an adamantine immor 1 ty the artist and intellectual life of the antii tha effect is of course exquisite in elaborate and rather morbid be i ty bi t it must be said t at there are man d very ganv wh ch go tor low rr ce owing to the imper faction rf their development the have a roio i or a bend that is ot coseo bently the japanese will b ly them indeed pleasure but will not a STI t the claims to be works of ait the untutored savage eye of the we t entirely falls to see any d kei anc bet een a perfect specimen 10 in three centuries of paual hight of five vears growth and a del ar va u macmillan s