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overlook are being made into 
a garden designed and built 
in true Japanese fashion, 
with the dwarfed trees, 
small bridges over water, 
stone lanterns and all the 
other effects which make a 
garden in Japan or its coun- 
terpart in California a spot 
so quaint and delightful. 
Life in California is lived 
so largely in the open that 
one naturally thinks of a 
bungalow in southern Cali- 
fornia as having a patio or 
some kind of a living-room 
out-of-doors as a social cen- 
ter quite as important as the 
living-room with its _fire- 
place, study table and cush- 
ioned seats. The Adams 
bungalow is provided with a 
veranda which is enclosed by 
the house upon three sides 
and which fulfills every ex- 
pectation made of a patio in 
this land of sunshine and 
flowers. Here the floor is 
covered with rugs, of mat- 
ting or woven grass; hickory 
and bamboo chairs are 
grouped about and hanging 
baskets filled with growing 
ferns and blooming plants are 
suspended from above. Lighting at night is supplied from 
small metal lanterns of Japanese design, which are fastened 
to the walls and provided with electric current. 
The vegetation of California is so wonderful that with 
only a very little care and cultivation the most astonishing 
results may be secured with all kinds of flowering plants and 
vines. No doubt, therefore, that within a few years this 
little Los Angeles home will be a bower of floral beauty and 
its Japanese garden will glow with flowers which will make 
it more than ever a transplanted bit of the ‘Flowery King- 
dom.” 
The setting of a home of such pronounced individuality, 
however, must be planned with the utmost care. Placed as 
it is upon a suburban street and in the vicinity of other 
houses of varieties somewhat different, it would be well to 
separate it to some extent from its neighbors. This does 
_View of the Adams house before planting was commenced 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
A corner of the comfortable living-porch 
May, 1912 
not mean that a high wall 
should be built about the 
place, but that tall growing 
shrubbery might be planted 
about the boundaries of the 
plot so that a screen might be 
created which would prevent 
the quaintness of the house 
being spoiled by direct com- 
petition with other buildings 
of a wholly different order. 
This is true in even a 
greater degree of the garden 
which, as has been said, is 
being made upon part of the 
plot. The tendency in plan- 
ning gardens upon suburban 
places is to ignore the bound- 
aries of individual gardens 
and to allow them to form, 
as far as possible, one large 
and beautiful garden planned 
in sections, as this treatment 
greatly enhances the beauty 
of them all. It will be read- 
ily seen, however, that a Jap- 
anese garden would suffer ir- 
reparably in being thus 
brought into such close con- 
tact with other garden spots 
so entirely different in char- 
acter. Its delicate beauty 
would be quite lost without 
bestowing any benefit upon 
the other garden spaces which might adjoin. For planning 
a division between such a garden and the neighbor’s there 
are various tall shrubs or low trees which may be in keeping 
with the Japanese garden as well as with the others. Ever- 
greens of various kinds are appropriate, for they belong to 
Japan no less than to America. The Japanese maple is so 
commonly used in gardens everywhere that we may claim it 
as well as the Japanese. Low maples and rather tall ever- 
greens therefore might be used to define the boundaries of 
the garden and to provide the setting necessary for the 
proper development of such a spot. 
If it be desired to connect such a garden with others 
which may adjoin, the connection might be through an arbor 
or pergola draped with vines, and placed between a garden 
planned in American fashion and one modeled after those 
of Japan the character of both gardens would befpreserved. 
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The brick terrace on the living-room side of the house 
