Quotes by Robert Fortune - Page 1

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Respectable
Classes
Gardens
Working Classes
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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Gardening
Flower
Lows
People
Flowers
Feature
Low
Marked
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No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Doubt
Islands
No Doubt
Gardens
Imitated
Rocky
Suggested
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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 / Botanist
Circulation
Formation
Sap
Way
Woods
Certain Extent
Extent
Leaves
Prevents
Wood
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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 / Botanist
Nursery
Roots
Formed
Looked
Planted
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Art
Exhausted
Struggle
Treatment
Yield
Generally
Measure
Powers
Quietly
Yields
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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 / Botanist
Bending
Branches
Roots
Withholding
Confining
Principle
Proceed
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Character
Chinese
Favourite
Feet
Lebanon
Two
Aged
Cedar
Contrive
Foot
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Chinese
Species
Stones
Variety
Generally
High Price
Manner
Pine
Price
Stone
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Charcoal
Doors
Quantity
Fires
Houses
Sheds
Straw
The Doors
Windows
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Chinese
Dwarves
Importance
Manage
Plant
Tree
Extremely
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Branches
Chinese
Chosen
Depends
Eye
One Sided
Opposites
Tree
Opposite
Particularly
Generally
Stunted
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Dozen
Garden
London
Nurse
Wealth
According
Extensive
Gardens
Generally
More Or Less
Smaller
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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 / Botanist
Facts
Firsts
Observation
Seeds
Smallest
Speak
Unlikely
Plants
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Garden
Gardener
House
Sides
Visitors
Walks
Arranged
Entrance
Houses
Narrow
Pass
Paved
Plants
Pots
Principally
Rows
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Bent
Chosen
Eye
Latter
Purpose
Representation
Tongue
Added
Afterwards
Altogether
Desired
Generally
Readily
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The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Appearance
Branches
Feet
Size
Stem
Symmetrical
Tree
Aged
Evidently
Manner
Miniature
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Chinese
Country
Description
Giving
Method
Tree
Attempted
Author
Effect
Japanese
Noticed
Produced
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Gardening
Flower
Flowering
Growth
Inclination
Thrown
Tree
Vigorous
Years
Freely
Peach
Plants
Plum
Trees
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Branches
Cases
Flow
Sap
Stem
Twisted
Checked
Desired
Encouraged
Main
Parts
Same Time
Zigzag
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Garden
House
Littles
Shops
Streets
Observed
Fail
Gardens
Houses
Japanese
Lower
Parts
Visit
Wherever
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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.
Robert Fortune / Botanist
Chinese
Favour
Flower
Gardener
Growth
Cultivate
Employer
Plants
Wishes
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