Robert Fortune Biography & Quotes

“As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.”

Littles House Pay Behinds Failing Streets Garden Shops

Book:Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China

Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China

“Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.”

Art Seems Struggle Quiet Treatment Yield Exhausted

Book:Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...

Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...

“Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.”

Eye Form Purpose Tongue Chosen Latter Representation Bent

Book:Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya

Source: Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya

“A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.”

Stones Species Variety Chinese High Prices

Book:A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains

Source: A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains

“Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.”

Years Littles Sometimes States Growth Cases Tree Flower Plant Thrown Inclination Vigorous Peaches Flowering Plums

Author:Robert Fortune

“Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.”

Ifs Eye Values Sides Tree Depends Opposites Chosen Variety Chinese Branches One Sided

Book:Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...

Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...

“The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.”

Two Character Half Feet Chinese Favourite Lebanon Cedars

Book:A Residence Among The Chinese

Source: A Residence Among The Chinese

“The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.”

Giving Has Beens Country Written Tree Effects Method Chinese Description

Book:Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

“There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.”

Wealth Garden London Owners Nurse Dozen Smallest Nursery

Book:Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

“The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.”

Form Process Sides Cases Flow Productions Branches Stem Twisted Sap

Book:Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya

Source: Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya

“The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.”

House Sides Walks Garden Plant Pot Gardener Visitors Entrances

Book:Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

“The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.”

Wells Next Tree Importance Plant Manage Chinese Dwarfs Dwarves Chrysanthemums

Book:Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

“We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.”

Knows Way Certain Woods Formation Circulation Sap Retard

Book:Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

“We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.”

Firsts Facts Speak Process My Own Plant Seeds Observation Smallest Unlikely Select

Book:Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc

“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”

People Flower Lows Features Highs And Lows

Book:Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China

Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China

Robert Fortune Biography

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