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THE PLANT WORLD. 



Fig. 42. Landscape garden in pure Japanese style. From a photograph 

 furnished by Professor J. Matsumura. 



with Hamlet left out. Nevertheless there is no sense of incom- 

 pleteness in looking- at a Japanese garden. Sitch a garden is a 

 whole landscape in miniature, and it is intended by its arrangement 

 to give an idea of largeness which it does not possess.* 



The particular garden which we are considering is not much 

 over two acres in extent. The ground is rolling, and there is a 

 deep basin with a small pond. In this " landscape garden " the 

 visitor sees nothing of the outside world, which is adroitly hidden 

 by the massing of trees and shrubs along the higher ground. It 

 is this landscape garden which makes the Tokyo botanical garden 

 different at all seasons from all other gardens in the world. Of 

 course the cherry blossoms and other special features arc more 

 conspicuous at certain seasons, but the landscape garden is beati- 

 tiful at all times. 



While the Japanese delight in gardens without flowers, yet they 

 enjoy flowers too. Everyone knows about Japanese " cherry 



* The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. Chamber- 

 lain's " Things Japanese " from which he has taken certain points used in 

 this paragraph. 



