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imitating Japanese effects. The curves 
must be graceful, affording, as vistas, the 
most artistic views in the garden. An¬ 
other important detail is the placing of the 
garden’s water-feature. For no matter 
how miniature the garden, some sort of 
water-feature it must have — even if only 
a sunken half-barrel, fit for the growing 
of a single lotus. The pool should be the 
most important focal-point in the garden, 
not excepting the almost equally indispens¬ 
able tea-house. Wherever possible, the 
combining of these two features with a 
rustic bridge is one of the most successful 
methods. 
In building the rustic work of tea-house 
and bridge, a Japanese architect should be 
consulted, or a detailed photograph care¬ 
fully studied, and a minute working-draw¬ 
ing made, especially if the contract is to be 
given over to the mercies of the local car¬ 
penter. Spruce poles, with the bark left 
on, is our nearest approach to bamboo for 
serviceability and graceful effect. Cedar 
is not so good, as its bark is liable to strip 
badly in high winds, while white birch is 
too glaring, and not so easily subordinated 
to the whole. 
The material used in planting such a 
garden should, of course, be chosen from 
Japanese importations. It is surprising 
how many of our shrubs, trees and hardy 
plants have originally come from Japan. 
But, in planting, do not try to have too 
great a variety. One plant feature to fur¬ 
nish bloom for each season is far better 
than heterogeneous beds. Plants with too 
heavy or massive bloom should also be 
avoided, always remembering that where 
a plant possesses both single and double 
varieties a Japanese will invariably select 
the former, as being the more artistic. The 
following is a suggested list for the ama¬ 
teur: Iris in variety, poppies, reeds, 
grasses, bamboos, flowering trees and 
shrubs, vines, roses, peonies and chrysan¬ 
themums, together with water-lilies and 
lotus for the pool, will be found sufficient. 
A few lily bulbs of different varieties may 
also be added, if desired. 
Under ordinary circumstances, the Jap¬ 
anese type of gardening is best avoided 
by the amateur. It is too easily made 
only a travesty of the real thing. Inart¬ 
istic rustic work, ungraceful paths, 
crowded planting, and inharmonious 
colors, are such omnipresent stone-walls 
against which to bump over-aspiring, horti¬ 
cultural heads. And, possessed of a fair 
amount of space, for the ordinary Amer¬ 
ican garden lover, there are so many other 
types of garden, any one of which will give 
him more pleasure, more wealth of bloom 
and fragrance, besides harmonizing more 
surely with the probable architecture of 
his dwelling. —Martha Haskell Clark. 
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