Sunday, September 23, 2012

America's Newest Home Business! Grow Living Ming Trees

From the October 1952 issue of Popular Mechanics

Jim Smith filled out the coupon.

Jim was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1925; in 1950 after reading about bonsai in garden magazines he ordered a book entitled "How to Grow Living Miniature Ming Trees at home" by John Kiktavi and four packets of seeds form National Nursery Supply in Inglewood, California. The seeds germinated but none of them ever became a bonsai [oops!] but it did start a "love affair" with bonsai.

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