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lure orange will be full of fruit, dwarfed to the size 
of a plum. 
The Japanese Tea Garden is an object lesson of spe- 
cial interest, now that Japan is at war with Russia. 
It is artistic, fresh and dainty ; hut in plain English 
the Japanese mode of intensive gardening, and their 
hand-craft in place of machinery, would turn the prog- 
ress of the Western world backward, were these meth- 
ods adopted. For instance, thirty years ago Horace 
Greeley, in tones that were heard and heeded by 
the whole nation, said: “Young man, go West, and 
throw away your hoe.” 
William H. Seward, in his tour around the world 
thirty years ago, said : “Japan is so thickly populated 
that there is nothing to spare. If one head of jvheat 
gets bent down in a rain, it is at once propped up 
to ripen.” 
The lessons conveyed in the views of these repre- 
sentative statesmen of that day are pictured in the 
Golden Gate Park, by the width and breadth and lux- 
uriance of American plant culture and park ornamen- 
tation, and the pretty, picturesque and dainty, hut nar- 
row, constricted Japanese creations. 
Only one fault I had to find. That was the mosaic 
beds cf coleus an 1 altcrnantheras hard. ring the broad 
walks along the sides of the conservatory. The broad 
expanse of the Pacific, the sublime Golden Gate en- 
trance, the bluest sky and brightest sunshine in the 
world are there. Hence, towering trees and tropical 
plants, bright green grass and beautiful natural prod- 
ucts are more in keeping than mosaic designs of fancy 
plants or anv other strictly artificial features of dec- 
oration. A minor defect in a grand and perfect 
scheme is like the dead fly in the ointment of the 
apothecary, of Proverbs. 
Last Homes of the Illustrious. 
By Mrs. Herman J. Hall. 
“Where they are dwelling whom we hold so dear." 
The “Angel of the darker drink” is often the friend become the pride of nations. The very ashes of the 
who presents to us a soul hitherto little known to our Great become precious. The number of friendly 
affections and by taking from the world a virile being glances which were received by the living notables are 
Beethoven. Mozart. Glueck. Schubert. 
MUSICIANS' CORNER IN THE CENTRAL CEMETERY AT VIENNA. 
forces the essence of that being into our daily lives, multiplied by thousands when we count those turned 
quickening memories of those who, when living, ere- upon their last habitations. 
ated but little enthusiasm but whose names have since As the artist and writer, ir life, have ever sought the 
