After their short life the cherry blossoms fall like snow-flakes 
quoted maxim “you may know the lion by his claw” 
does not apply to this flower, the real pageant of which 
can be realized only when we look at the whole tree 
fully dressed in its floral robe of transcendental beauty. 
Especially is this so with mountain cherries, which 
display their floral beauty to the best advantage in their 
native haunts, where they are in harmony with the 
scenery of the surrounding wooded hills. The rare 
beauty of the cherries on Arashiyama (Kyoto) is 
largely due to the fine scenery of the surrounding 
mountain gorges. 
