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- Summary, etc.The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and sav......an unknown Englishman Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. After visiting Japan in 1902 and 1907 and discovering two magnificent cherry trees in the garden of his family home in Kent in 1919, Ingram fell in love with cherry blossoms, or sakura, and dedicated much of his life to their cultivation and preservation. On a 1926 trip to Japan to s......ch for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to see the loss o...
- Genre/Form TermsBiography Biographies. History.
- Subject HeadingIngram, Collingwood, 1880-1981 Ingram, Collingwood, 1880-19......el--Japan Botanists--Great Britain--Biography Japanese flowering cherry--History Flowering cherries--Great Britain--History Botanistes--Grande-Bretagne--Biographies Cerisier du Japon--Histoire Botanists. Flowering cherries. Japanese flowering cherry. Travel. Great Britain. Japan.