FORMAL GARDEN OF JAPANESE PLANTS 
(SEE PLAN NO. 18) 
FRIEND of ours who has considerable worldly possessions, and 
is a lover of Nature, wishes a garden of Japanese plants, not a 
Japanese garden, but an American garden using practically only 
hardy plants which have been comparatively recently introduced from 
Japan and the Far East. As the trees are to be arranged somewhat in 
a regular manner for a fancied oriental effect that equal spacing may 
give, the general outline of the garden will be formal in character. It 
was decided to put a six-foot wall entirely around the area that the plants 
may seem to be wholly separated from the rest of the estate. There 
seems to be the most room for this garden on the north side of the house, 
and the walk into it from the house will end in the garden. 
All the construction will be of permanent material, either of concrete 
or brick, as this garden is planned to far outlast its builder. In fact, 
it will take many years for the trees to take on the form that will carry 
out the feeling desired by the planner. The walks will be of gravel, 
edged with concrete. 
Beyond the garden a low hill rises at the north, and on this most of 
the evergreen trees will be placed, outside the garden wall, as a back- 
ground for the garden. Though regularly spaced at first, they will 
also be placed in natural groups to clothe the whole hill and give the 
garden shelter. Only a bit of the planting outside the garden wall is 
shown; we have no room to indicate how the other planting will join it, 
and it would not be of Japanese character, but related native species. 
The arrangement itself is rather simple, perhaps too simple, but the 
garden will look quite different to the eye than it does on the plan, es- 
pecially when the rows of trees get to some considerable size. 
At termini of the walks we place seats or stone lanterns, as indicated 
by the shaded areas on the plan. The two central panels have each a 
regular row of Kadsura trees alternated with Chinese Redbud; one is for 
outline, the other for flower, and both are similar in leaf. The two outer 
pairs of panels have an equal number of Ginkgo trees alternated with 
Japanese Flowering Dogwood, one for height and form, and the other 
for flowers. The two narrower beds are for show of flowers from the 
Evergreen Azaleas and the winter color of the Japanese Yew. 
A row of Japanese Tree Lilacs stands outside the wall, and a pair 
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