HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1912 
Oriental Stone Lanterns 
For American Gardens 
APANESE Gardens in America” 
is the name of a Vantine Book 
that is well illustrated and 
daintily printed — “Plans and treat¬ 
ment and why this form of Garden 
should be given a preference.” 
If you have a nine-foot square of ground, 
or if you own a large country estate, what 
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tory pages will appeal to you in a very per¬ 
sonal way^ —• 
“The Laying Out of Japanese Gardens.” 
Central Park is primarily a naturalistic 
Park, but the best section is treated in Japan¬ 
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Like the Italian garden, the Japanese has certain architectural features — 
quaint wooden bridges, stepping stones, stone lanterns, stone or bronze deer, 
dogs and cranes, each having special significance. 
Stone lanterns, be it noted, are tokens of thankfulness or thank offerings for the re¬ 
covery from sickness of members of the family— 
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plain or decorated, dates from early days, and no Buddhist temple is complete without its 
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{Continued from page 64) 
should be used. When the flower spikes 
show the feeding may be resumed. As the 
day grow shorter and the sun less power¬ 
ful growth is slower, until about the mid¬ 
dle of October, when the leaves begin to 
sicken and fall off. Less watering is then 
required, and in November it may be dis¬ 
continued entirely. W/^R. Gilbert 
Garden Suggestions and Queries 
{Continued from page 47) 
rows, we have masses, borders, edgings 
and beds. They are, however, very nearly 
analogous. 
Plants in the border are usually planted 
in single clumps (hills) several feet apart, 
so they can be worked between. The 
hardy perennials which have a tendency to 
spread and form a solid mat will do much 
better if they are kept cut down to smaller 
clumps, either .by lifting and dividing, or 
by cutting part of the root growth at the 
end of each flowering season. 
The counterpart of the drill is found in 
edgings, where the seed is sown thinly in 
a continuous shallow drill, or the small 
plants set close together, so that when 
grown they will form a long narrow rib¬ 
bon of color or of bloom, in front of taller 
growing plants. 
Flowers set out in beds are usually 
planted in straight rows, eight to twenty- 
four inches apart, so that during their 
early growth they may be easily cultivated 
and develop evenly. 
For mass effects, they are either planted 
close together or the seed is scattered 
broadcast, so that the individual plants 
are lost sight of. Many of the half-hardy 
garden annuals are used most effectively 
in this way. It is well, when sowing seeds 
by this method in the open, to work up the 
ground as soon as possible in the spring, 
and let two or three crops of weed seeds 
sprout, and be hoed up, before the flower 
seeds are sown. 
An Experimental Year in a Flower 
Garden 
{Continued from page 24) 
The cosmos got a late start and gave me 
no little anxiety, fearing it would not 
bloom before frost. I had never seen 
them, but their beautiful, finely-cut foli¬ 
age made a far better background than 
was possible with the peas. I read that 
to pinch out the top would induce earlier 
bloom. This I did on a number, but 
without noticeable results. In order to 
throw the strength to the top, I pinched 
off quantities of lower buds. These 
plants, four to six feet high, began bloom¬ 
ing the fourteenth of October, and were 
{Continued on page y2) ' 
