LITTLE GARDENS 



in height. The Japanese landscape effects are 

 on the same microscopic scale as these trees, and 

 the seen-through-the-small-end-of-an-opera-glass 

 gardens would not go well with four-story houses 

 and the dust and ugliness of town. With the 

 slight and pretty dwellings of the Japanese they 

 are possible enough. 



If you are resolved on bringing nature into 

 the town, it will signify that you are a man whose 

 sympathies are not all for humanity, but have 

 some reach Into the world where gain and poli- 

 tics are not; while this, in turn, will mean that 

 you desire to be yourself, rather than to be other 

 men, taking color from nature, rather than so- 

 ciety; hence, you will esteem privacy, at least, 

 somewhiles, and will seek rather to escape the 

 observation of the precinct than to be the focus 

 of it. Therefore, your first care will be to close 

 yourself about with vegetation. If it is per- 

 mitted, you will plant trees at the end of your 

 yard, train a hedge of privet along the sides of it, 

 and mask your house, back and front, with Ivy, 

 ampelopsis, honeysuckle or wistaria. You will 

 live In a jungle, barely penetrable by prying eyes 

 and, I hope, as delightful as it Is secluded; and 

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