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Updated: May 27, 2025
Both kinds grow in my garden. This most dainty citron-tree is called 'Buddha's fingers, because of the wonderful shape of its fragrant fruits. Near it stands a kind of laurel, with lanciform leaves glossy as bronze; it is called by the Japanese yuzuri-ha, and is almost as common in the gardens of old samurai homes as the tegashiwa itself.
The handsome, well preserved old man with the shrewd, kindly, white-bearded face told me now that these bushes with the grayish green, lanciform little leaves were Chinese tea, and that he was picking the two or three outside leaves on each twig in order to dry them for his domestic consumption.
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