JAPANESE GARDEN IN AMERICA 



owners of the gardens they axe constructing, that 

 there are ideal shapes not only for the trees, but also 

 for the mountains, lakes, water-falls, stones, and 

 numerous other accessories; and that it is of the 

 utmost importance that the gardener should take 

 cognizance of a multitude of religious and ethical 

 conventions in working out his design. They call 

 attention to the fact that the streams must follow 

 certain cardinal directions; that the nine spirits of 

 the Buddhist pantheon must be symbolized in the 

 number and disposition of the principal rocks ; that 

 the trees and stones must be carefully studied as 

 to their relations to each other, and to the general 

 garden scheme, and only such combinations made 

 as are regarded as ' t fortunate, " And woe to the 

 unhappy gardener who does not study, very care- 

 fully, their symbolic relations, and who heedlessly 

 introduces what is considered an unlucky com- 

 bination. 



So conscientious are the oriental garden builders 

 that they give the same care in regard to symbolic 

 details to their "foreign" landscape construction, 

 on American country seats, as in their native coun- 

 try. No matter what the size, form or finish 

 whether it is large or small, mountainous or flat, 

 rough or elaborate the true landscape garden must 

 be made to contain, in some form, rocks and water 



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