PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



The study of Japanese manners and customs, of 

 home decorations and gardening features, first be- 

 came of prominent interest in this country in con- 

 nection with the early world's fairs the Chicago 

 Fair of 1893 presented one of its most charming 

 features, in the form of a complete Japanese village, 

 constructed and ornamented with regard to all 

 the traditional details for which Orientals are 

 famous. Japanese villages then became the fad, 

 not only for later " fairs/' but Japanese tea rooms, 

 and Japanese gardens on an elaborate scale were 

 built as side attractions at famous summer resorts ; 

 and an increasing interest in the quaint stone lan- 

 terns, the curiously dwarfed trees, the winding, rock- 

 bound waterways crossed by novel bridges, and all 

 the significant details of garden accessories associ- 

 ated with the traditional and legendary lore of the 

 Japanese, attracted the attention of owners of splen- 

 did country seats, who speedily demanded the ser- 

 vices of genuine oriental landscape artists thus to 

 decorate a portion of their extensive acres. 



In some instances, of late, Japanese gardens have 

 been transplanted bodily from a summer resort 

 (where they have flourished for a time and then be- 

 come unprofitable) to decorate a home garden of an 

 enthusiastic nature student, as in the case of the 

 quaint and charming bit of old Japan on the Mathias 



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