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ONE OF THE MANY CHARMING JAPANESE GARDENS FOUND IN THE LOS ANGELES REGION 
“Always irregular in design, they belong to the informal type of landscape gardening 
though they may appear of the formal type because so highly conventionalized” 
fully placed to give a correct effect, 
at least to the Oriental eye. I hey 
often serve too as stepping-stones 
or bridges, placed in their natural 
roughness or hewn in slabs. 
A Japanese garden is never com¬ 
plete without one or more lanterns 
of which there are two general kinds, 
the standard and the legged, each 
with many variations in design and 
size. An example of a standard 
lantern with a mushroom shaped 
roof is shown in the picture on 
the preceding page, effectively sur¬ 
rounded by shrubbery which in 
this case is the showy Hydrangea 
with its blossoms of delicate pinks 
and blues. Another popular type is 
the hanging lantern made of metal, 
either bronze or iron, and some¬ 
times supended from the eaves of a 
tea-house or even from the main 
house. Where outlined against a 
background of blossoming fruit trees 
such lanterns give an unusually 
charming effect. 
The Japanese love the blossoming 
fruit trees, the Cherry, the Plum, 
FLOWERING FRUIT TREES IN A JAPANESQUE 
GARDEN OF THE PACIFIC COAST 
There are many lessons to be learned of our Oriental 
brothers with their exquisite perception of natural 
beauty; not least among them such use of fruit trees 
as lovely for the garden as many so-called “orna¬ 
mentals” 
and the Peach, which are the motif 
for many of their festivals, and 
which scatter their bloom with lav¬ 
ish abandon, softly carpeting the 
ground. In many a Japanese garden 
there are more lovely carpets still 
such as, for instance, the velvety 
Moss that grows in little humps and 
tufts of brilliant dark green in the 
Californian replicas of old Japan. 
This Moss is sometimes so planted 
as to produce the appearance of a 
brook coming down to join a pool— 
one of the extraordinarily skilful 
Oriental devices for creating the 
effect of a natural waterway by 
artificial substitutions. Water adds 
so much to any garden scene and is 
so essentially a part of many of the 
gardens on the eastern coast of the 
Pacific, that one should include it in 
any plan for the Japanesque garden. 
Wherever it is not possible to ar¬ 
range for genuine pools and streams 
one can use these artificial substi¬ 
tutes to produce the much admired 
“ Dried-Up-Water-Scenery ” of the 
Orient. 
