If the anniversaries of people are slightingly treated in the land of the sunrise, the same cannot be said of plants.

The yearly birthdays of the vegetable world are observed with more than botanic enthusiasm.

The regard in which they are held is truly emotional, and it not actually individual in its object, at least personal to the species.

Each kind of tree as its season brings it into flower is made the occasion of a festival.

For the beauty of the blossoming receives the tribute of a national admiration.
From peers to populace mankind turns out to witness it.