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Bonsai, Saikei and Bonkei: Japanese Dwarf Trees and Tray Landscapes

Bonsai, Saikei and Bonkei: Japanese Dwarf Trees and Tray Landscapes

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Condition: Very Good

Book Notes: Mustard cloth boards with brown cloth spine, minor shelf wear. Dust jacket (grade C): faded and toned along the top edge and spine, with light spotting and edge wear. Binding is tight; pages are clean. Pencil note "B9" on the front jacket flap next to the price.

Author(s): Robert Lee Behme

Publication year: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Condition: Very Good
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Robert Lee Behme's guide to bonsai and to tray landscapes, illustrated with his own photographs (12 color plates and more than 200 black-and-white photographs, per the jacket). Step-by-step pictures take beginners from a first "instant bonsai" to more difficult plants, and a chart describes fifty subjects for bonsai.

The jacket notes that the book covers the four sizes of bonsai and the single-tree styles, roots-over-rock and rock plantings, raft and group or forest plantings, and two kinds of tray landscape: saikei, made with small living plants, and bonkei, made with artificial materials. Chapters cover buying and making plants, potting, wiring, watering, growth control, protection from weather and pests, containers, tools and display.

William Morrow & Company, New York, 1969.

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    (A) Excellent
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    (B) Good
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    (C) Fair
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    (D) Poor
    Contains large tears, several creases, and/or heavy staining.

    (F) As Is
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