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).
THE JAPANESE ART OF MINIATURE
TREES AND
LANDSCAPES
THEIR CREATION, CARE, AND ENJOYMENT
by YUJI YOSHIMURA and GIOVANNA M. HALFORD
CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY, INC.: PUBLISHERS
Rutland, Vermont Tokyo, Japan
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Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company. Inc., of Rutland, Vermont 8. Tokyo. Japan. with editorial offices at Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032.
© 1957 by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. All rights reserved under the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 57-8794.
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0900-1 (ebook)
First edition. 1957.
Sixteenth printing. 1971.
Book design & typography by M. Weatherby. Decorations and layout 01 plates and figures by M. Kuwata.
Manufactured in Japan.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
This book could only have resulted from the combination of two authors which it happily found, a Japanese authority on bonsai with long teaching experience and a Western student of the art with the ability to anticipate the Western reader's questions and problems and to describe on intricate subject in lucid English. Collaboration on a technical book, however, is never easy; and in this case the difficulties have been compounded by the fact that the authors suddenly found themselves separated by the oceans and seas—to say nothing of canals—between, Japan and North Africa. Fortunately, the book had already been written, but there still, remained the tasks of final editing, choosing photographs, drafting line drawings, preparing captions, proofreading, indexing, and coordinating all the various parts. In these circumstances the publishers have had to assume more responsibility and make more decisions than were rightfully theirs. They must, then, thank both authors for patience and understanding, and must also take upon themselves the blame for any acts of commission or omission which do, injustice to the authors' intentions.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 10 | |
| 1 | INTRODUCTION | 13 |
| 2 | PROPAGATION | 21 |
| Bonsai from Naturally Stunted Plants | 23 | |
| Bonsai from Seed | 26 | |
| Bonsai from Cuttings | 27 | |
| Bonsai by Grafting | 31 | |
| Bonsai by Layering and Dividing | 34 | |
| 3 | POTTING AND REPOTTING | 47 |
| Soils | 48 | |
| Methods | 51 | |
| 1. Cleansing | 51 | |
| 2. Root Trimming | 51 | |
| 3. Potting | 52 | |
| 4. Finishing | 54 | |
| 5. Fixing in Pot | 54 | |
| 6. Watering | 57 | |
| 7. Aftercare | 57 | |
| 8. Transplanting Seedlings | 57 | |
| 9. Treatment of Cuttings | 58 | |
| 10. Special Conditions Requiring Immediate Repotting | 58 | |
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11. Repotting after Drastic Pruning
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