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AMERICAN HOMES: AND GARDENS 
September, 1912 
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In Japan the home garden maker utilizes small space to good advantage, as may be seen by the arrangement here illustrated 
as upon a small one. But here it should be noted that 
whereas we have only attempted landscape gardening on a 
large scale, the Japanese have adopted it to every garden, 
irrespective of size. And the practical question is whether 
the owners of small gardens could not profit by practising 
this art. Imagine what could be done upon a rectangle say 
twenty feet by twelve. Upon this space one could create 
a real landscape; a range of the Sierras might rise; and 
from the windows one might look down into “still waters 
between walls of shadowy granite in a gleaming pass.” 
Again, a study of the art of the Japanese gardener cer- 
tainly emphasizes the fact that it is not necessary to accept 
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One of the mest perfect examples of Japanese gardening in all its na 
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flatness in a garden. A hill can be made by the very simple 
device of digging out the ground; and a lake or sunken 
garden is manufactured simultaneously by the same cut. 
After all, this landscape idea is common to all nations, 
and here the Japanese teach us that a landscape, with a 
true perspective of its own, can be created anywhere on 
any scale. Water is often one of the cardinal beauties of 
the Japanese garden, though it is not essential. It can be 
dispensed with, but it is very much easier than most people 
imagine to provide water on a small scale. I know a tiny 
garden in the heart of a great city which has two ponds, 
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This fovele garden is not far from Tokio 
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