Images Dated 2011 June

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

557. View of Matang and River, Sarawak, Borneo

Palms (Arenga saccharifera, Labill., &c.) and Mangosteens in the foreground. Toddy, or Palm Wine, an intoxicating drink, is made from the Arenga and sugar is obtained by boiling and evaporation of the sap of this palm. A good tree will yield 100 pint

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Art, Artist, Borneo, Drink, Foreground, Landscape, Leaves, Marianne North, Matang, Painting, Palms, River, Sarawak, Wine

698. Two Swamp Plants of Java in Flower

The snow-white flowers of the Costus speciosus, Sm., like those of most of its allies, are very fugitive, but the red bracts from which they spring are more durable. Cassia alata, Linn., belongs to a genus numerous in species, generally diffused in w

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Art, Artist, Flowers, Java, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Swamp Plants