Staff at the Head office of the Yokohama Nursery Co. Ltd.

Black and white page from L. Boehmer & Co.'s 'Descriptive Catalogue' (1905), p.6. Founded by Louis Boehmer (1843-1896) in 1882, L. Boehmer & Co. was a firm that specialised in exporting Japanese plants to Europe and the United States of America and helped popularise Japanese art and flora to the western world.