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Figure 101 The Yokohama Nursery Company offered 'Shiro-fugen' (synonym 'Fugenzo') and 'Ko-fugen' (synonym 'Daikoku'). From Descriptive Catalog of the Yokohama Nursery (19261927).
'Edo-zakura' Edo, or in an old romanization, Yedo, is the name of Japan's capital from about 1600 until the end of the nineteenth century. After the reforms of the 1860s Edo became known as Tokyo (), the eastern capital, to distinguish it from the old capital , more to the west. 'Edo-zakura' is given as 'Yedo-zakura', 'Yedo', or simply 'Edo' and should not be confused with Prunus Ă—yedoensis. It appears from the end of the seventeenth century in Japanese written sources. Miyoshi (1916) described it as P. serrulata f. nobilis. In subsequent Japanese sources it is found as P. lannesiana 'Nobilis'. 'Edo-zakura' was regularly offered by Japanese nurseries exporting to the West from the late nineteenth century until about the 1930s. Several semi-double, pink-flowered garden cherries resemble 'Edo-