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In building this bridge I am afraid 1 have lad myself open to the same 

 criticism that might be made of most Japanese gardens in America, which 

 are generally too lavish in bronze storks and expensive dwarf trees. They 

 remind me of the new florid style of Tokio pottery, manufactured for the 

 American trade, and not at all Hke the subdued grace of the old Satsuma 

 ware. Though I have some few Japanese plants, the tree that looks its 

 part the best is a grotesque lilac which I found in the back yard of an adjacent 

 farm. The garden as it stands has cost me, including everything, about 

 one thousand dollars. When once installed, the expense of keeping such 

 a garden is slight. As the elements beating upon the summer houses 

 weather the unpainted wood, so does every freshet add character to 

 the outlines of the hills and brooks. The last cloudburst did more for 

 my garden than my whole summer's work. 



II. The Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park 

 By C. H. Townsexd and E. C. B. Fassett 



There is probably no scheme of gardening which offers greater pos- 

 sibilities for diversified arrangement within a limited space than 

 that followed by the Japanese. It is essentially landscape gardening 

 requiring an uneven surface — there must be hills and valleys, groves and 

 open spaces, rivulets, pools, rocks, and whatever is suggestive of the natural 

 landscape. Much that is formal is introduced in the way of bridges, buildings, 

 stone lanterns, bamboo trellises, and potted trees. Taken as a whole, the 

 features which compose it are all more or less in miniature, excepting the 

 original trees of the locality and the buildings. Being a representation 

 of the scenery of a country within narrow Hmits, it is in reality a condensed 

 landscape. Notwithstanding the high degree of art upon which it depends, 

 it is much more natural in conception than the gardens of other countries, 

 with their clipped box hedges, walks, and growths of all kinds in straight 

 rows or in exact mathematical curves. 



The Japanese garden has been little more than an experiment in this 

 country. There is a large and notable one in Golden Gate Park, at San 

 Francisco, created as a Japanese exhibit at the Midwinter Fair, in 1893. 

 This garden comprises a half -acre of hillside, on which are groups of scrubby 

 pines from twenty to thirty feet high, and is enclosed by a unique fence in 



