LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



twenty feet or more and tend to shut in and isolate 

 from the rest of the place the Oriental air of the 

 building. 



These trees consisted of cryptomerias and the 

 following : 



Juniperus Chinensis, ,^g. Var. Retinospora obtusa lycopodi- 



Juniperus Japonica aurea oides 



Juniperus Japonica pfitzeriana Retinospora obtusa tetragona 



T . . aurea 



Juniperus squamata 



„ . , .,. Taxus cuspidata brevitolia 



Retinospora obtusa gracilis _ „. , , ,.. 



B^tinospora obtusa gracilis Cryptomeria Lobbi compacta 



^^^^ Pseudolarix Kaempferi 



Retinospora obtusa pygmea Pinus Massoniana 



Retinospora obtusa nana aurea Sciadopitys verticilata 



It may be possible in such a situation to make 

 something that represents in a fashion a Japanese 

 garden, though it is doubtful whether in America 

 good taste in landscape gardening can afford to 

 admit its presence, so alien is it to our modes of 

 thought and action. 



Under the best conditions, wherever visible in 

 our landscape, any Japanese garden will be almost 

 certain to strike a note of discord. The best 

 that can be done with it, outside of an art museum, 

 may be illustrated by a description of the way it 

 was used on a small estate seen by the writer on 

 the outskirts of Paris. Here a territory of three 

 or four acres was treated in a thoroughly scenic 

 and academic way. On one side of the French 

 windows and open veranda of the villa were the 

 vegetable garden and the outhouses. At the 



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