MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 81 
on Washington Avenue is indeed an innovation in office- 
building construction. It is built in the Spanish mission 
style, of cream-colored stueco with red tile roofs. To the 
west of the building is a large space, 160 x 60 feet, laid out 
as a garden. The cool spacious lawn is margined by a five- 
foot border of shrubs and an occasional poplar tree, and the 
whole garden is enclosed by a high stucco wall crowned with 
red tile. The great amount of soot and dirt in this section 
of town has proved discouraging to most shrubs and per- 
ennials, but the Company is persistent in attempting to 
replace these with hardier and more tolerant plants. 
‘‘On Washington Boulevard, four blocks below Grand, is 
a flourishing Japanese garden built a good many years ago 
entirely by the owner and his Japanese servant. Two and a 
half carloads of stone were brought from Iron Mountain to 
build the walls, ponds, bridges, lanterns, and the miniature 
Fuji mountain that most effectively! conceals the ashpit. 
The bald statistics of 250 feet of paths and nine fountains 
or water-falls in a lot 60 x 40 feet sounds quite staggering, 
but the parts of the design blend into the whole in such a 
way that they do not offend the eye. From the top of the 
‘‘mountain’’ one gazes down on an orderly sequence of water- 
falls (one rippling over a shutter set in the stone), ponds, 
bridges, and fountains. On a catalpa tree, trained in wierd 
shape, climb two snakes, the top one spouting water three 
or four feet in the air, the water dropping into a shell bird- 
bath on the ground below. There is also a crocodile that 
spouts water on, a frog and, much to the delight of the owner 
(who himself made these animals out of lead), small boys 
are continually throwing sticks over the fence to see if the 
frog will move. 
‘‘Wistaria grows over the walls, torii (temple gates), and 
an umbrella-shaped frame; papyrus shades the gold-fish 
from the glare of the summer sun, while a big sweet-gum 
tree protects the ‘‘mountain climber.’’ Moreover, time and 
smoke have not discouraged such wild flowers as the false 
Solomon’s seal which is still blooming after seventeen years. 
Twenty-year-old May-apple plants, though not blooming, are 
fairly healthy. Lilies-of-the-valley, pansies, and iris (the 
latter, however, not blooming in the shade) are successfully 
