JAPANESE GARDEN IN AMERICA 



foliage ; but all these rules are understood and most 

 carefully adhered to by the master of Japanese gar- 

 den craft. And it is found, on comparing the group- 

 ing of tiny dwarfed trees of miniature gardens with 

 the arrangement in large spaces, that the same rules 

 have been followed. 



The disposition and use of the various architec- 

 tural accessories of the garden are also formally 

 regulated, and the variety in garden building is found 

 mainly in the form of these accessories, as the pago- 

 das, lanterns, water basins, wells and bridges are 

 fashioned in many curious and beautiful designs, 

 while the enclosures in the form of unusual fencing 

 of reeds, bamboo and twigs present many pleasing 

 forms and combinations. 



The famous Japanese landscape gardens that 

 have been established on American country seats 

 have been sufficiently large to give a fairly good idea 

 of oriental landscape gardening on an extensive 

 scale: and yet there is no reason why the owners 

 of city homes, with small back yards enclosed by 

 ugly high board fences, should not have them trans- 

 formed by a bit of Japanese magic. Professor Morse 

 tells in his talks on the Japanese, of how they utilize 

 the smallest areas of ground for such effects. "I 

 recall an example," he says, "of a cheap inn where 

 I was forced to take a meal or go hungry until late 



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