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THE JAPANESE FLORAL CALENDAR. 



The Koganei cherry-trees, which, for two miles and a half, line 

 both sides of the aqueduct conveying water into Tokyo, are said to 

 have numbered originally ten thousand, but there are now only a 



few hundred. They were planted there with the idea that they had 

 "the virtue of keeping off impurities from the water." 



Night cherry flowers (yozakura), "seen by the pale light of the 

 moon," are a great attraction, one of the special sights of the year. 



It may readily be understood that so popular a blossom as this 



