An enchanting story about an Englishman's attempts to preserve Japan's rich cherry tree heritage in the face of rapid modernization is soon to hit bookshelves across the world.Naoko Abe has charted how the botanist Collingwood Ingram collected cuttings from across Japan in the 1920s and grew them in Britain, even returning one extinct variety back to Japan.Abe, a journalist and writer, told Kyodo News how Ingram expressed disappointment that many varieties of cherry trees disappeared when the feudal lords abandoned their large estates in the latter half of the 19th century.He urged Japan to…READ FULL ARTICLE
