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Without question, this garden will be the most striking feature, 
and one of the most beautiful, in the Botanic Garden, and will 
undoubtedly be the most unusual artificial landscape design 
within the limits of Greater New York. It has been pronounced 
by competent Japanese critics as the most perfect Japanese garden 
in the United States, and, with possibly one exception, the only one 
open free to the public daily. The area covered by the garden is 
about one quarter of an acre. The following quotation is from a 
letter of December 7, 1914, to the director, from Mr. D. J. R. 
Ushikubbo : 
“Relative to the Japanese garden, I take the liberty of expressing my 
opinion from the standpoint of the Japanese idea; that is, that it is cer- 
tainly the most beautiful and finest garden I have ever seen, among many 
examples now under construction in America. Although it is not very 
large in area, it looks complete, and makes everyone feel as if he were 
in ’ 
— 
“The tea house and tsukimido (moon view house) are truly repre- 
sentative of the art of Japanese gardening.” 
Proposed Rock Garden 
In the entire city of Greater New York there is no public rock 
garden, such, for example, as is common in England. Our ex- 
tensive grading operations during the past two years have un- 
covered a large quantity of glacial drift boulders of all sizes, and 
while this is not the material one would choose, above all others, 
for a rock garden, nevertheless it can be utilized to advantage. 
A large number of these boulders have been deposited at the site 
of the proposed rock garden, at the edge of the ecological section, 
the garden has been carefully planned, and the only thing neces- 
sary to make possible its completion during 1915 is a gift of from 
$2,500 to $3,000 by some generous and public-spirited lover of art 
and nature. 
Plantations 
Work Done.—The work done in the development of the plan- 
tations during 1914 is noted in detail in the appended report of 
the curator of plants. Perhaps the most important is the be- 
ginning of installing the General Systematic Section. The plan 
for this section provides for grouping the beds by orders, and 
