10. Seclusion obtained by enclosing a garden with 

 trees inste&d of a snobbish, citified stone wall 



level, your glance travels from vine clad 

 walls, down steep banks of shrubbery to 

 the foliage of perennials, thence to the 

 brilliant flowers in geometrical beds and 

 finally to the central lawn — the natural 

 resting spot from which the eye ascends 

 by the same easy process. 



Allied to the formal garden is the Japanese 

 garden, for although the Japanese loudly 

 protest that their gardening is the most 



11. A meadow or orchard for daffodils by the thou- 

 sand. No care is required after planting 



natural of all because it is the landscape 

 in miniature, there is an impassable gulf 

 between their conceptions of landscape art 

 and ours. Theirs is essentially religious 

 and symbolic. The Japanese do not 

 want many flowers in their gardens; they 

 think that great masses of color are vulgar; 

 they care more for lines than for color and 

 in their cut flowers particularly these lines 

 have a semi-religious significance; their 



12. A Southern garden for March and April effect, in 

 which Indian azaleas are naturally dominant 



simplicity is an extreme and affected sim- 

 plicity; their hills, stepping stones, lanterns, 

 dwarf conifers, temples and waterfalls are of 

 definite relation to one another, or else they 

 have something to do with ancestor worship. 



No genius can ever harmonize a Japanese 

 garden with an American landscape. It 

 should always be an isolated feature. False 

 originality creates a very large Japanese 

 garden, or puts it where all the world may 



14. A nalure-HKe water garden, irregular in outline, 

 secluded, but sunny. On a wild garden estate 



15. How an old quarry was turned into a beautiful 

 rock garden. How different from a rocKery 



13. False originality drains wet swamps. True 

 originality converts them into bog or water gardens 



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