Bonsai : An interesting Hobby and its History (Part 3)

Bonsai 

An interesting Hobby and its History (Part 3)

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A bonsai (Japanese 盆栽 bonsai, is a tree or a plant in a pot. This word literally means a plant (usually a tree or shrub) grown on a tray or in a pot (meaning 盆 good cup or tray and 栽 season plant). This tree is miniaturized by cutting and ligating its branches and leaves. We repot regularly to prune its roots inside and on the surface of the pot (nebari) to make an aesthetic work of art resembling a tree in nature. The word bonsai is pronounced in Japanese.

In Europe, bonsai hobby were introduced for the first time during the third Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878, then in a private exhibition in London in 1909. The first reference to bonsai was made by Paul Sédille in the Gazette des Beaux-Artsde September 1878. In 1902, Albert Maumené published the first essay on bonsaïs2. In 1904, a slightly more serious approach was made by Henri Coupin. It can be seen on archival documents bonsai had absolutely different forms of modern bonsai. Their current codification date after the Second World War, and was mainly spread by John Naka.

In Europe, if the culture of potted trees existed in the Middle Ages (see the orange), it had never tried to recreate nature in a small scale. There are also only a distant relationship between the two types of culture. We can not see bonsai as a topiary, although bonsai, mainly Vietnamese, guided in their growth by metal son, had at one time represented animal forms.

The United States during and after World War II, bonsais were massively imported from Japan. In 1965, the bonsai were imported in large quantities to Europe by Gerritt Lodder, the Netherlands, followed by P. Lesniewicz, Germany. It took a few years, and the participation of Remy Samson to see bonsai to appear in France, where he experienced a marked success in the mid-1980s.

• There are no "bonsai seeds." Numerous species of trees can be conducted in bonsai. Simply use the techniques specific to this art. Therefore, Bonsai are not "genetically dwarfed trees."
• The age of a tree is not an essential element of bonsai. An old tree may be misshapen and unattractive then a seedling a few years may already have qualities that make him a beautiful bonsai.
• The art of shaping a bonsai is in no way cruel. Ligation and repeated sizes are not more cruel than the wind, rain, and climatic hazards as trees suffer the ground. In addition, a bonsai is usually fertilized and watered copiously to maintain its vigor that allows branching.