XX AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1909 
The materials for a picturesque garden always 
exist if one can but see them. 
Our cedars, pitch pines, junipers, and, in 
fact, all the evergreens which are not too 
large are Japanesque in character and more 
suitable for this climate than anything brought 
from Japan. 
We have the same irises to plant about the 
water, and the same grasses, and we can grow 
some of the reeds. 
If the beauties of our own shrubs are not 
enough we can use almost all those of Japan, 
because our flora is similar, and most Japanese 
shrubs, except the evergreens, are hardy in 
New York. 
The Japanese habit of naming things might 
well be adopted, though in a less fanciful way. 
Names makes conversation easier and give a 
certain imaginative value to the things named, 
thus Spring Garden, Rose Garden, Garden 
of Sweet Herbs, Alpine Garden, are all per- 
fectly intelligible and mean much. 
Philebe’s Berg, Pandora Lawn, Carasaljo 
Lake, Myrtle Bank, Rhoda Dale, applied to 
different parts of the estate, are not so obvi- 
ous, but are perfectly good names, and are 
much easier than a descriptive title like this: 
“The hill on the north side of the upper 
pasture,’ or “The grass plot near the brook 
just before you come to the bars.” 
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Sn ee A correspondent, in New Jersey, asks if 
asd | S| eae |) = oot water lilies can be grown in pots or tubs, and 
Rain ! Rain!! Rain!!! All EE GRE ey if the results warrant the trouble. 
/ y ; It is very easy to grow water lilies in tubs— 
IF you lack snap and want ginger, a whiskey barrel sawed in half is the best 
ive then old: establighad: te : thing. These can be painted and set on the 
Cu counte. Sis terrace or sunk in the ground. ‘They should 
Uh et 7 U a Z L y eth | be filled to within four inches of the top with 
we ‘ ae & good soil well mixed with old manure. The 
A to the grocerman lily root is then planted with a stone to hold 
co vi it down, and the whole is covered with an inch 
Pes aes 
; 3 SOME se ee of clean sharp sand. ‘This keeps the dirt in the 
No one ever heard of a ZU ZU that wasnt good earth from: floating togthestepaaiheni neem 
Us is filled with water. 
ve Ny : Ce) Never I 45 C ; The lotus is perhaps nicer for tubs than 
; the water lilies, because their leaves and 
PITS dea chal eile oat flowers rise so high from the water, and it is 
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HORTICULTURAL HOBBIES 
“T have just moved to the country for my 
health, and I want to have a garden, but I 
don’t know just how to go about it. Most 
of the gardens I have seen are too. elaborate 
and too full of a variety of plants. They 
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“Some flowers I like, but there are many 
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