Text Box: Elm bonsai have the ability to do the greatest thing a plant can do for a bonsai artist, they look just like a large tree in the landscape. Scale is important for the bonsai artist. Most Elm leaves reduce easily. I could go on and on about the great reasons to do Elm bonsai but Leo Fortner will do it better at the April Meeting . Leo will bring different Elm species and I’m sure some great Elm bonsai to show all the great elements of Elm as a species to be used for bonsai. If you have a Elm species, Elm bonsai or Elm in any stage of development bring it to the April ACBS meeting for a show and tell session on Elm Bonsai. We have lots to cover at the meeting so please read over this newsletter and take note of all the upcoming shows we will have in the gulf coast area. Joe Day Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Volume 24,Issue 4 Text Box: Elm bonsai by Leo Fortner Text Box: April 2005 Text Box: Special points of interest: Briefly highlight your point of interest here. Briefly highlight your point of interest here. Briefly highlight your point of interest here. Briefly highlight your point of interest here.

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Text Box: The West Mobile Regional Library Show April 30 Text Box: This will be our first public show for the 2005 year. The West Mobile Regional Library has lots and lots of foot traffic every day. The also has a great front entrance set deep back with the second floor serving as a roof. We will set up under the “front porch” with both tables and our podiums. We will be show Text Box: ready a bit after 9:A.M. Saturday morning and stay until about 5:30 P.M. This will be a show to tell the public about bonsai, get the message out that we have a bonsai society in Mobile and just enjoy meeting lots of great people and a few just so-so folk. It’s been very nice to see all the new faces at Text Box: the last two meetings. This show and our hand out could help our chances to build our membership. Joe Day Text Box: ACBS Web Site Visit our Wet site. Http://www.azaleacitybonsaisociety.com We continue to add elements to the web site thanks to our ACBS member John Lee Text Box: A PUBLICATION OF THE AZALEA CITY BONSAI SOCIETY, MOBILE, ALABAMA Text Box: May 2005 ACBS Regular Meeting May 03, 2005 Program “What makes a great bonsai show tree” By Joe Day Host: Leo Fortner Tokanama: Art Kersten Text Box: ACBS Summer Social Will be our June Event The Summer Social will be at the home of Joe & Pam Kuhn. The date will be set at the April Meeting.