wrote:
For whatever reason 1909 was chosen and from whatever source it came,
that date was then repeated down through the years in probably scores of
books and articles. And hundreds of websites currently.

True of more than a few "facts" repeated in bonsai "texts"
over the years. If an author doesn't "know" something
himself (or herself) he (or she) simply re-states what
someone _else_ wrote. (Probably true in other fields, as well.)

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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