FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from the musings on the Japanese idea of the suchness of things in nature, the beauty of transience and imperfection. It appears that as part of this view of the world, the advanced horticulture of plants was in part a meditation on the theme, exemplified by the many remarkable (and many lost) varieties of morning glory flowers that they bred, and the (coincident?) rise of the wild tulip forms in Holland, formed by transposons and viruses, respectively.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022