Marianne North Gallery

665. Banyan Trees at Buitenzorg, Java

Roots descend from the branches of this tree (Ficus bengalensis, L.), on all sides, and after penetrating the ground they enlarge and grow into stems three or four feet or more in girth. In this way a
tree spreads and spreads until it forms a litt

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Art, Artist, Banyan Trees, Branches, Buitenzorg, Java, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Roots

661. Study of Japanese Chrysanthemums and Dwarfed Pine

The Japanese delight in dwarfing normally big trees ; and they have brought the art to such a degree of perfection that they can keep them down to the size of the one represented to a very considerable age. In this condition they are perfect miniatur

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Art, Artist, Big Tree, Chrysanthemums, Dwarfed Pine, Flowers, Japanese, Leaves, Marianne North, Orange, Painting, Purple, White

645. Two Flowering Shrubs of Java

Strophanthus dichotomous, DC., and Lagerstroemia indica, L. The five-tailed corollas of the first are singular, as well as its large seed-vessel, which consists of two carpels spread out horizontally ; and the wavy-petalled, rosy flowers of the latter are not unfamiliar in the greenhouses of this country

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