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MINIATURE

TREES AND

LANDSCAPES

Color Plate (see overleaf). A semiformal Japanese arrangement for exhibiting bonsai. The principal tree is a beautifully proportioned common Ezo spruce in the semicascade style, on a stand mode of a carved and polished tree trunk. This is balanced on the left by the subordinate bonsai, an excellent rock planting in the clinging-to-a-rock style, created four years ago by Lt. Col. and Mrs. John M. Anderson, U.S. Air Force, while attending Mr. Yoshimura's classes. The scroll pointing of wild camellias and bird harmonizes with the seasonal motif of this winter arrangement.

Technical data. Principal tree: 3 ft. wide. Age about 50 yrs. Produced by layering about 20 yrs. ago, from a naturally stunted tree found in northern Japan. Unglazed Chinese pot. Rock planting: consists of dwarf bush clover 13 pieces, 5 yrs. old, from cuttings), dwarf flowering quince 12 pcs., 5 yrs., cuttings), golden fern (1 yr., dividing), ibota ligustrum (3 pcs., 7 yrs., cuttings), Japanese tama-rack (3 pcs., 8 yrs., natural), Sargent juniper (5 pcs., 7 yrs., cuttings), and dwarf star jasmine (3 pcs., 5 yrs., cutings).