xviii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1909 
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_ Garden Hose That’s Built To Wear 
Qa garden hose wears out from the inside. The least water pressure 
\ tends to unwrap it. (You know how its made—wrapped with canvas— 
like a rag around a sore finger.) Kinks crack it and then come the leaks. 
ELECTRIC GARDEN HOSE 
Wears twice as long as ordinary hose. \t willstanda higher water pressure than any other 
rubber hose. We guarantee it for 200 Ibs. to the square inch. 400 Ibs. won't burst it. It can't kink. 
In brief, this is Electric building—a series of woven jackets (in one piece) of high-test cotton fabric 
alternating with layers of fine graderubber. The whole vulcanized into a solid seamless piece. You 
can buy any length up to 500 feet. Although Electric is the finest hose ever made, it costs only a 
cent or two more than common. If you are in the market for hose, no matter how little, Electric is 
worth looking for. Electric trade mark is on the hose. First-class seedsmen and dealers sell it. If 
yours doesn’t keep it, write to 
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Canoe in innumerable channels and waterways among green islands—fish, bathe— 
live on and in the water—and on shore play golf and tennis. 
Muskoka Lakes, Canada 
Less than a day’s journey from the principal American cities, via Niagara Falls, Detroit, (Chicago. Solid trains 
from Buffalo and Toronto. Modern hotels set in fragrant pines afford splendid service. Hay fever is unknown. 
Handsomely illustrated descriptive matter free on application to 
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W. E. DAVIS, Passenger Traffic Manager G. T. BELL, General Passenger and Ticket Agent 
MONTREAL MONTREAL 
AN UNIQUE GROUP OF GREENHOUSES 
The garden is laid out in terraces, and the houses are stepped up to conform. 
The palm house gives an ornamental accent at one end and the gardener’s cottage at the 
other, making a well-balanced and altogether pleasing layout. And this is the sort of thing 
we can do with our Flat Iron Rafter greenhouse construction. 
Always glaa to send you illustrated matter, or will come and talk greenhouses with you. 
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1170 Broadway New York 
portieres at either side to break up the stiff 
lines of the openings. 
The wall space above the mahogany wain- 
scot may be covered with a Japanese leather 
paper in mahogany and gold in the burlap 
effect. Some kind of settle or divan may be 
placed against the wall, and a drop-leaf table 
may stand near the door for holding a card- 
tray and mail. A mirror, handsomely framed, 
is always useful and decorative in a hall hung 
above a settle or table. For holding um- 
brellas there are bronze tiles made in Japan, 
or one may be found of mahogany with brass 
hoops. The lighting features are not men- 
tioned by this correspondent, but these are of 
great importance in making the hall distinctive. 
Garden Work About the Home 
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which is shaped like a camel, or which is 
very like a whale, is an acquisition for any 
garden. 
These stones are named from their shapes 
and positions, like this: statue stone, guardian 
stone, etc. Frequently they are inscribed with 
some poetic thought in the beautiful Chinese 
characters. 
The trees in a Japanese garden are carefully 
trained, dwarfed and clipped, and have lost 
all semblance of what we should call their 
natural beauty. Every quaint shape has a 
name, and each bend and twist and grouping 
of branches conveys an artistic idea to the 
Japanese. 
The natural scenery of Japan is as pictur- 
esque and comprehensible as ours, but I shall 
regret the day when we begin to imitate our 
scenery on garden plots ten by twelve feet. 
In one Japanese garden the details are 
named in this way: Fujisan Viewing Hill, 
Azuna Arbor, Hut of the Salt Coast. Thus 
we might have a “Mt. Washington Over- 
look”; ‘Palisades, from Grant’s Tomb’; 
“Haystack on the Salt Marshes, New Eng- 
land”; or take the title of any picture of a 
landscape exhibited this winter and concoct a 
suitable imitation in the garden. 
Japanese stone lanterns have never seemed 
reasonable to me. “Their wide tops, like enor- 
mous Panama hats, may be excellent protection 
for the rice paper which they use instead of 
glass, but they are not beautiful. Nothing is 
more ridiculous than our way of using these 
lanterns for gateposts or to flank the steps of a 
colonial mansion. 
These lanterns must have great charm at 
night, however, when they are lighted, and 
their faint gleam seems like the candle in a cot- 
tage window on a distant hillside. The illu- 
sion is very perfect. 
There is much that we can learn from the 
Japanese. Their use of rough stones for step- 
ping-stones, posts and steps is admirable, and 
their rustic work and wooden structures are 
reasonable and beautiful. 
To transport their gardens or their houses 
here, except for exhibition in a museum, is an 
inconceivable violence to our instincts and tem- 
perament as well as to the things themselves. 
Let us rather build a garden in the Japanese 
manner, making it by hand and with the ma- 
terials which are easiest to get. The de- 
signer of such a garden must superintend the 
placing of every stone and bush, because the 
beauty of such work must depend upon the 
skill with which the various elements are com- 
bined in a perfect whole, and not upon the 
beauty of the materials which go into its 
making. 
It would be foolish here to build hills as 
they do in Japan. We should start with the 
ground almost as it is and embellish that rather 
than to try making something new and strange. 
