Les,
I also checked this book - because it is an old publication (1957)-
and
as has happened before for me there is a word or a thought from an earlier
time that is sometimes an explanation and connection with the bonsai
continuity
of experience, and the more pleasure because it is Yoshimura's. I find the
styles
fun to compare, too.

Lynn
Lynn Boyd, Oregon, USA
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from Les:
For a Japanese bonsai source I also checked "The Japanese art of
Miniature Trees and Landscapes" by Yoshimura and Halford. (If you can't
trust Yuji Yoshimura, who can you trust?) Under 'nire' in Appendix 3, where
the Japanese names are translated and detailed, it says "See 7 Aki-nire,
77
Haru-nire". Not much immediate help but, under Aki-nire, which could be
roughly translated as 'autumn elm', the name is translated as "Chinese
elm.
Ulmus parvifolia Jacq." Other Japanese names given under Aki-nire are
nire,
ishi-geyaki, and nire-geyaki (a commonly used name in Japanese language
texts, translated as elm-zelkova).
Under Haru-nire, which could be roughly translated as 'spring elm',
the
name is translated as "Japanese elm. Ulmus davidiana Planch. var.
japonica
Nakai; U. campestris Sm. var. japonica Rehd.; U. japonica Sarg." No other
Japanese synonyms are given. I have not seen this name in my recent
reading
of Japanese bonsai books and magazines, but I have seen a few examples of
the Japanese elm grown in Zone 3. Its leaves are smaller than U.
americana
but bigger than those of the locally hardy Siberian elm, U. pumila.
Hopefully this helps.

Best wishes in bonsai,
Les Dowdell

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