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FLV-TL-10

Cultivation Tool

Pressed, plated, and offered for keeping

FIG. 1 —

Yasugi SLD Tool Steel · 180 mm Precision Reach

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DETERMINATION — FOR THE KEEPING OF

Forged Sanjo Carbon-Steel Satsuki Shears

Yasugi SLD Tool Steel · 180 mm Precision Reach

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Each view drawn from the same specimen. Select a plate to inspect it.

Each view drawn from the same specimen. Select a plate to inspect it.

Hand-forged slender-blade pruning shears designed for reaching into dense bonsai canopy pads, trimming orchid flower spikes, and making clean vascular cuts without crushing cambium tissue.

Forged by master blacksmiths in Sanjo from Yasugi SLD alloy steel, these narrow-neck Satsuki shears reach cleanly into congested foliage crowns without bruising adjacent petioles.

FURTHER READING — THE JOURNAL

Notes filed alongside this plate

ISS-03

ISS-03

Mekiri & Winter Dormancy: The Seasonal Discipline of Japanese Black Pine

Understanding apical dominance, summer candle decandling, and obligatory chill-hour physiology in Pinus thunbergii bonsai.

Kenji Morimoto

THE HERBARIUM LETTER — FOUR A YEAR

What to repot, what to read, and what has just been accessioned.

Seasonal, unhurried, and easy to leave.

COLOPHON

Set in Inter and Newsreader, with IBM Plex Mono for specimen records. Botanical plates courtesy of Unsplash contributors.

ON THE RECORD

Pet-safety notes in the Atlas cite the ASPCA classification recorded for each species. Where no classification has been verified, the record says so.

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