THE 



FLOWERS AND GARDENS 

 OF JAPAN 



PAINTED BY ELLA DU CANE 

 DESCRIBED BY FLORENCE DU CANE 



SQUARE DEMY 8vO., CLOTH, GILT TOP, CONTAINING 50 FULL- 

 PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR. 



Price 2O/- net* Post free 20/6. 



Morning Post. " Taken as a whole, this ' gardening ' book is one of the 

 most fascinating that has ever been published, and is worthy of its most 

 fascinating title. Its pictures are all of them beautiful, and admirably re- 

 produced, and the letterpress matches them well." 



Guardian. " Miss Ella Du Cane catches no little of the Japanese spirit, 

 its delicate harmonies of colour, its wonderful use of blended washes in 

 preference to our cruder European methods of manipulating sharply 

 contrasted tints, its careful study of line, and its studied suppression of all 

 hardness. . . . The whole forms a singularly attractive gift-book."' 



Daily News. " This is so charming a collection of the dainty landscape 

 scenery for which Japan is now well known that we should have been 

 grateful for it even if it had not been more. It is, however, as well a 

 pleasant and informative discourse on the ritual of Japanese gardening in 

 general, and on the many gardens in particular, which the writer has been 

 privileged to visit." 



Scotsman. "Prose and pictures together make an uncommonly pretty 

 posy, which would grace even the most severe library. ' ' 



Liverpool Courier." Horticulture in Japan is bound up with the poetry 

 and folk-lore of the people, and Miss Du Cane brings out this association 

 in a most delightful fashion. In fact, her writing weds the practical and 

 poetical most attractively. The book is illustrated in colour by Miss Ella 

 Du Cane, and her pictures are wholly exquisite impressions. If anything 

 could induce us to imitate the Japanese gardener, these dainty water-colour 

 sketches should." 



Observer. " The literary pages are entertaining, the plates are delicious. 

 . . . The book as a whole is vivid and fragrant with masses of wistaria, 

 azalea, iris, lotos, chrysanthemums, and the airy glories of cherry, peach, 

 and plum. Miss Ella Du Cane's pictures are, indeed, so daintily done 

 instance at random that bewitching glimpse called 'Wistaria at 

 Nagaoka ' that those who once take this volume in their hands will turn 

 it over again and again. ' ' 



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