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At the end of the seventeenth century a second popular catalog on garden plants appeared titled Kadan-jikin (Flower bed embroideries) but sometimes read as Kadan-chikin . Written by Ihee (16561739), the third generation of the nursery family, this booklet appeared in 1695 and it functioned as a first sales catalog, advertising also for the other nurseries in 's village of Somei, just outside Edo. In the nineteenth century the gar-
Figure 12 A mountain cherry from the horticultural treatise Kadan-komoku * (Flower bed catalog). From Mizuno (1681).