8 FLOWER GARDENING 
The walled garden is more laughed at than 
understood by Americans; they are prone to regard 
the barriers as an affront to liberty. Yet it is 
one of the most admirable of gardens—which 
scarcely can be sanctuary when exposed to the 
full view of the public. The walls do more than 
provide seclusion, however; they break the violence 
of chilling and withering blasts and keep out such 
undesirable visitors as dogs. They also make it 
possible to grow tender climbing roses and vines, 
as well as choice fruit. 
The Japanese garden is the fourth great na- 
tional type. As far from the Italian, French or 
English garden as the East is from the West, its 
art lies so much in the concealment of art that 
were it not for the architectural features it would 
seem as if nature were being imitated instead of 
adapted. This through the exercise of rigid laws 
that are not easy for the occidental mind to grasp. 
It lends itself very well indeed to many American 
requirements. It fits in with low rambling houses, 
or bungalows, where roofs are long and hang well 
over. It is most serviceable in the development 
of rocky grounds, especially where a small amount 
of water is at hand or easily obtainable. If a 
pedant chooses to call the resultant garden Jap- 
anesque rather than Japanese, let him. 
There are hill and flat Japanese gardens. In 
the former, if there are not natural rises of ground, 
they are created, often with such cunning that the 
eye is deceived into seeing distance that does not 
