Robert Fortune

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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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. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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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. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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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. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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