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Notes on a Japanese Garden in California 



It is interesting to observe the variations in feeling and 

 effects between it and the gardens in Japan. The greater free- 

 dom of treatment and less conventionality shown in this gar- 

 den may probably be attributed to the influence of work in 

 this country on the gardener, or possibly to the lack of age, 



which is an im- 

 portant factor in 

 the final produc- 

 tion of the effects 

 attained. 



A Japanese 

 gardener, Mr. 

 Hagiwara, and 

 his family were 

 secured, and the 

 design, planting 

 and making of 

 the garden was 

 left entirely in 

 their hands. 



This garden is 

 probably the only 

 important one of 

 its kind in this 

 country, but its 

 accessibility to the 

 public has been 

 the means of at- 

 tracting consider- 

 able attention to 

 the methods of 

 the Japanese gar- 

 dener. The gar- 

 den was opened to the public as a Japanese Exhibit at the 

 Mid-Winter Fair in California in 1893. Its attractions were 

 immediately recognized and its dexelopment has prospered 

 under the Park Commission, which is fully alive to its value 

 as one of the city's pleasure grounds. 



The tract selected for the garden was covered with a scat- 

 tered growth of pine trees perhaps fifteen years old, most of 

 which were permitted to remain, but which have been consid- 



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 A JAPANESE GARDEN IN CALIFORNIA 



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