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from France. Some of this material has done well 
and some has succumbed to various ills incident to 
transportation, a late season, and to climatic conditions. 
Collections of broad leaved and of 
coniferous evergreens are grouped 
in plantations as well as used 
as to seem to preclude any possibility of securing any- 
thing worthy that name. Size, rather lack of extent, 
of ground area troubles not at all the Japanese gar- 
dener. He seems always to have at his disposal all 
necessary material exactly proportioned for a garden 
of any scale of smallness. Given a natural hillside. 
THE ORANGERY AND GARDEN; BRITISH BUILDING AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 
singly. These include magnolias, rhododendrons, 
Taxus baccata, and many more needle evergreens. 
Roses, peonies, dahlias, clematises, begonias, and nu- 
merous other plants were brought from home, while 
necessarily many vacancies have been filled with Amer- 
ican grown stuff of one kind and another. This gar- 
den, as a whole, shows the inevitable disaster to vege- 
tation consequent upon lack of experience with pre- 
vailing conditions by the intelligent and enthusiastic 
Trench gardener in charge of this ground. The hot 
winds, especially, seem to reduce him to despair. 
The Japanese village is built on a hillside, thus se- 
curing an ideal opportunity for the development of 
the typical landscape effects of planting in that coun- 
try. Theirs is pre-eminently and always strictly land- 
scape gardening even when done on a scale so minute 
as is furnished here, and all the rest appears to fol- 
low as a matter of course. The Japanese garden at 
the fair is a charming place with winding walks that 
go up and down hill, span the inevitable water way on 
rustic bridges of a type that has become familiar 
through illustrations and the less complete gardens 
seen at previous expositions, by stone lanterns and 
quaint, little overhanging evergreens with a conforma- 
tion suggesting having passed a long existence cling- 
ing to the brows of cliffs, across stepping stones that 
mean so much to the initiated, up natural steps in the 
stone ledge to a tiny summer house; and along swing- 
ing lines to the tea house where the steaming bev- 
erage of the country is dispensed by genuine little 
maids of Japan, who manage to move gracefully de- 
spite the seeming hampering of their garments. 
Outdoor Statuary. 
The Grotto. 
IN THE GARDENS OF THE TRIANON; THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT BUILDING. 
