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- From: aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelyn Aldridge)
- Subject: Re: Again, what is bonsai?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.121129.4328@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec26.145929.29029@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:11:29 GMT
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- dmiller@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller) writes:
-
- >>Subject: Again, what is bonsai?
- >>
- >>Hello!!
- >>I'm very sorry I always say "I'll post soon," but I haven't yet.
- >>
- >>Now, I have a question:
- >>In Japan, BONSAI means small trees grown in pots.
- >>In English, does the word BONSAI have exactly the same meaning in Japan?
- >>or, Is it include flowers in a pot, or big trees grown on the ground?
- >>
- >>Sorry this is a very basic question:-/
- >>
- >>Megumi Sorita
- >>sorita@fhl.fujitsu.co.jp
- >>
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- I think it includes trees and shrubs (shrubs because many plants
- have the ability to grow in both tree and shrub forms). But usually not the
- soft leafy forms of flowering plants. A big tree in the ground could be
- considered a bonsai if it's growth were directed and limited by pruning,
- feeding, water access, and root pruning. But I think most people in the
- U.S. think of bonsai as dwarfed, aged, pot grown trees.
-
- Potted up the feather cypress mentioned earlier in a large,
- earthenware, unglazed pot with a flowing flared body slightly footed.
- The earth is mounded softly up around the roots. The tree top droops
- umbrella like over all, slightly larger all round than the pot. This pot is
- not a traditional japanese bonsai shape but this bonsai is designed to
- evoke memories of california hills or beaches. Perhaps the tree one used to
- climb in the park, bare earth beneath.
-
- --Jackie--
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