Notes on a Japanese Garden in California 
It is interesting to observe the variations in feeling and 
effects between it and the gardens in Japan. The greater free¬ 
dom of treatment and less conventionality shown in this gar¬ 
den may probably be attributed to the influence of work in 
this country on the gardener, or possibly to the lack of age, 
which is an im¬ 
portant factor in 
the final produc¬ 
tion of the effects 
attained. 
A Japanese 
gardener, Mr. 
Hagiwara, and 
his family were 
secured, and the 
design, planting 
and making of 
the garden was 
left entirely in 
their hands. 
This garden is 
probably the only 
important one of 
its kind in this 
country, but its 
accessibility to the 
public has been 
the means of at¬ 
tracting consider¬ 
able attention to 
the methods of 
the Japanese gar¬ 
dener. The gar¬ 
den was opened to the public as a Japanese Exhibit at the 
Mid-Winter Fair in California in 1893. Its attractions were 
immediately recognized and its development has prospered 
under the Park Commission, which is fully alive to its value 
as one of the city’s pleasure grounds. 
The tract selected for the garden was covered with a scat¬ 
tered growth of pine trees perhaps fifteen years old, most of 
which were permitted to remain, but which have been consid- 
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A JAPANESE GARDEN IN CALIFORNIA 
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