" Chinese Method of Dwarfing Trees."

         [  Applied to both Chinese gardens & penjing ]

Bibliography Reference - sighting the    " Gardeners Chronicle  of                21 November 1846 "

We should acknowledge, the Western perception of that time.......

• Contemptible in appearance.

• Cruelly tortured.

• Excoriated.

• Hideously made, that which nature created, beautifully.

• Irrational.

• Made lame & distorted, that was created straight and well-looking.

• Overcomplicated.

• Pitiful to look at.

• Rendered mean and unhealthy.

• Twisted and distorted.

• Unnatural.

         " Be minded, the same way toward others, as to yourselves;

do not be minding lofty things, but be led along, with the lowly things."

       These words were written in the First Century Common Era.