LOVE OF FLOWERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 8

LOVE OF FLOWERS

FEATURE OF JAPAN

"I was fortunate enough to be in Japan during tbo chrysanthemum season; their methods of growing and training these flowers border almost on the miraculous," said Mr. 0. \Y. 8. Kohn, who has just returned to Wellington after a visit to the East.'"For instance," be said, "they have life-size figur.es of women dressed ■ entirely in growing chrysanthemums. The blooms are very small—about the aize of a sixponce, and it is truly wonderful the way they train the flowers to represent kimonos and various dress adornments, of numerous colours, and by some magical arrangement the blooms all come out at the one time. The roots of the plants are concealed inside the figure. The Japanese lovo of beauty is most marked."

"The Japanese have a proverb, 'Never' say beautiful tiil you have seen Nikko,' and the truth of that proverb is not unearned. I was there when the maple leaves were showing autumn tints, and one day drove for five miles through a maple- forest through which the light shone in a brilliant golden colour."