980 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
17th century. According to these de- 
scriptions, the Chinese gardens were laid 
out in the natural style. 
The gardens of Japan are original and 
unique. The Japanese landscape garden- 
er studies a natural landscape and re- 
produces it in miniature, his composition 
including mountains, . lakes, streams, 
hills and woods. While these gardens 
are often very small, they are artificially 
arranged, and for this reason well worthy 
of study, as the principles employed may 
be utilized in the laying out of ground 
on a larger scale. 
Fig 11. 
Dwarf Mountain Pine (Pinus monticola) 
