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S.M. Latif, Kajo© Tanara, Sooaatera 
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-r- I lr. Sojira Sutoh aaya, should the stu- 
uf the art of f 1 owor-arrangeneat be considered as 
the easiest and coDBonet step leading to the more pro¬ 
found study of Japan’s culture - j , I dare to say in ay 
turn, the study of gome plants of the forests of Into*™ 
nesia in particular of Seematera is the most conven¬ 
iently situated window through which the grand panora¬ 
ma consisting of valuable national possession (the 
forests) could bo soon at its best. 
Within the equatorial aone, twelve degrees on 
either side of the equator - the zone which includes 
the Malay Archipelago and much of the continents of 
Africa and South-America - tropical Orchids are gene¬ 
rally distributed and monopodial Orchids roach their 
greatest development. 
Indonesia is part of those humid tropical re¬ 
gion* where innumerable species of Orchid* either may 
hang down , sometimes in large numbers from the trunks 
and branches of trees raid shrubs or grow terrestrially 
not seldom in heaps not far from the sea-shore. 
Longer than an era the westerners have obtained 
in quantities of orchidaceous plants being important 
things for the horticulture so called Orchid-houses 
in Europe. For the commerce-orchid* the principal cov? 
ditions are: large flowers, special colours, long- 
- lived bloom and long stalks. 
Collectors then and now spare no pains and money 
to own handsome kinds of Orchids. Lives and health 
stand at a great risk, and through their energy tho 
stock of majiy Orchids that have been greatly increased 
thereby, giving all cultivator* a chance of procuring 
1 ) Usually tunjustly) spelled: Sumatra. Other names of 
tho island are: Poelau kma* (Golden Island), Poclau 
1-ertja (Island of Ficus elastics Koxb.) and Poclau 
Andalas lIsland of Forus macrour a Miq. f being a 
tree with excellent kind of woodT. 
2) Sojiro Sutoh, The Study of Japanese Sword, Cultur al 
Nippon , March */* 
■'he author oY the first book of hie ton 
Marsdon. the author of the first book of hictory of Sumatra, circus? 
ctant tally writes about the name of thris island in his His to ire de 
Sumatra, Tome premier, Paris 178'/. . . ✓_ . 
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