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"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."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
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"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
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"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
Gardening
"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."
Importance
"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."
May
"So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower."
Growth
"One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers."
Love
"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
Houses
"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."
Business
"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."
Country
"No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated."
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