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the Yokohama Nursery Co. Catalog of 1898 are similar to bonsai brought from Japan by Larz and
Isabel Anderson.
A Yokohama Nursery Co. Catalog from 1903 features flowering cherry blossoms from Japan on
its cover to entice overseas plant buyers.
When he visited Japan in 1901, renowned plant explorer David Fairchild photographed a man
creating a bonsai at the Yokohama Nursery Co.
David Fairchild was another visitor to the Yokohama Nursery Co. in Japan
where he photographed a bonsai being worked on. A plant explorer, he and his
wife Marion played key roles in the 1912 gift of more than 3,000 cherry blossom
trees from Tokyo to Washington, D.C., the precursor of the Bicentennial Gift of
bonsai from Japan. Fairchild introduced many hundreds of plants new to the
