Seems there a couple of new bonsai books on the shelves. I
looked both over today, but didn't buy -- yet. I'll add them to
the collection . . . someday.

1. Pop Bonsai - Kodansha pub. It's by a (ALERT! - SEXIST
COMMENT - ALERT!) cute Japanese chick, Lisa Tajima, who attended
college in the USA and obviously took our pop-culture marketing
tricks to heart and has mastered them very, very well. For an
idea, you can checkout www.popbonsai.com (though you will have to
have the Macromedia Flash add on installed to see anything (I
prohibit the showing of "Flash" products (for obvious security
reasons) so can't see much). Anyway, I'll probably end up
getting this one first since the trees are all on the tiny side,
which I prefer. ($19.xx) She appears to have an extensive
interview on "Bonsai Talk" but since I haven't time to go there,
I haven't seen it.

DALE: You might want to comment on the pots. ;-)

2. Ortho's "All About Bonsai," apparently a new addition to
Ortho's extensive "All About" series of garden-related books. It
is admittedly for beginners. It has a number of pictures of
mostly ho-hum bonsai, and a VERY basic text. It'll have to get a
lot better if it hopes to match ANY of the Sunset books (old or
new). ($14.xx). I'll wait until this one starts turning up on
the used book shelves -- and it will -- before I add
just-another-beginner book to my collection.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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