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MEMORIAL 
CHAPEL, 
HARMONY 
GROVE 
CEMETERY. 
A driveway circles the buildings, and trees and 
shrubbery add much to the beauty of the ensemble. 
The structure was designed by Architect E. M. A. 
Machado of Salem, and erected at a cost of $30,000. 
The rest of the fund of $40,000 left by Mrs. Blake is to 
be devoted to the maintenance of the buildings. J. N. 
and V. S. Peterson of Salem were the contractors. 
The structure was dedicated last summer with im- 
pressive ceremonies on the 64th anniversarv of the 
consecration of Harmonv Grove as a cemetery. 
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GROUND PLAN OF 
CHAPEL ANP ADMIN- 
ISTRATION BUILDING. 
Stone WorK in Japanese Gardens 
Every tiny back garden in Tokyo contains among its 
floral and artificial ornaments slabs of natural rock, 
judiciously placed, says the Stone Trades Journal. 
Marvelous are the illusions produced by them with 
the aid of these dwarf trees that the Japanese gardener 
knows how to grow and train. It is absolutely magical 
to see what lovely landscape effects he can obtain 
out of an oxcart load of big stones and a few of these 
stunted plants. He will create for you with his dwarf 
pines and microscopical bamboos upon a few square 
yards of soil what looks like leagues of wild (or culti- 
vated) country. There shall be a stream and water 
meadows, and rice fields perfect, though each no bigger 
than a chessboard ; a mountain tarn with a carp in it 
and goldfishes and a tortoise shall appear; a flying 
bridge and glittering waterfall and a range of lillipu- 
tian but lovely mountains. Accordingly, rocks are an 
article in great demand, and Tokyo being an alluvial 
plain, without anything of the sort at hand, numerous 
dealers exist in the city whose business it is to bring 
in from the mountains and to supply their customers 
these indispensable adjuncts of Japanese horticulture. 
Great, round stones from the bed of the river, and 
square or oblong slabs of moderate size can be had 
cheap enough. But if you will go into something 
imposing for dimensions or remarkable in color or 
material, there are rocks on the Ishuja's yard that will 
cost you from one to two hundred yen — sav $50 to 
$100. Learned treatises exist which teach how these 
rocks should be planted in the gardens, and what plants 
should be disposed near them ; how you should build the 
ishibashi or bridge of stone : how you should stand 
the ishi-bumi or tablet bearing an inscription ; where 
should be placed the ishi-doro or stone lamp-stand. 
Rocks that have a hole, in them are much valued for 
ame-no-ishi or natural basins, and stones with a vein 
in them, ishime, may be of high value if the marks 
lend themselves to any fancy, religious or poetical. 
