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Sword-Guards of Feudal Japan 
{Continued from page 62) 
One of the most important styles 
of ornamenting metal is Zogan, a 
process which includes damascening 
and is sub-divided into: Honzogan 
work where an undercutting retains 
the liammered-in inlay (if flush with 
the surface, this is called Hirazogan, 
and if it is in relief, Takazogan) ; 
and Nunomezogan work which de¬ 
rives its name from surface grow¬ 
ing, incised to represent linen mesh. 
The second style of ornamental work¬ 
ing is included under the names 
Kebori and Katakiri. With Kebori 
work the lines are finely cut, and the 
word designating this class of work 
signifies “hair lines engraved." Kata¬ 
kiri work produces engraved lines 
varying in depth to produce the effect 
of painting. The Japanese hold this 
style in high favor. The third style 
of ornamental metal-work is Niku- 
bori; work in this style is carved in 
relief, low relief being distinguished 
by the name, Usunikubori, and high 
relief, Takabori. The final style is 
Uchidashi. This is metal-work re¬ 
pousse, and is often to be found in 
combination with Nikubori. 
The subject of Japanese metal¬ 
work must ever prove one of fasci¬ 
nation to the student or collector, 
and even a very small collection of 
tsuba will serve to cover the general 
field of representative styles. Like so 
many other articles of collection ap¬ 
peal, they combine the two interests 
of former utility and present beauty. 
The Best White Flowers 
{Continued from page 33) 
and as man’s migrations over them; 
but it is beautiful wherever you find 
it, and there will never be discovered 
anything in garden design to take its 
place satisfactorily. 
Therefore, I say, simplicity is one 
of the easiest things in the world to 
accomplish. It alt lies in banishing 
the idea of being original, and in ac¬ 
cepting that which is good and proven 
good by long-time usage. In other 
words, when in doubt, play up 
straight lines, walks that go some¬ 
where, and borders to them. 
Planting combinations that shall be 
picturesque are innumerable. I have 
prepared a tabulated list of the white 
fiowers that are at the head of their 
section of the floral world, dividing 
them into the tw-o classes of vertical 
and horizontal; in each class, into tall 
and low growing. In the composition 
of a landscape, the artist chooses hor¬ 
izontal or vertical to be his leading 
motif, using the other only as an ad¬ 
junct to this and for emphasis where 
emphasis is needed. Do the same 
thing in garden composition; choose 
the one or the other to dominate, and 
introduce the other for variation. 
Usually it will be the horizontal—the 
broad and sweeping mass—that will 
dominate; while the vertical will fur¬ 
nish the exclamation points, the ac¬ 
tive principal—the watchful aspect. 
Twelve Good Sorts 
As to the flowers themselves, if I 
could have only a few white flowers, 
I w'ould choose first, the foxglove; 
second, the giant marshmallow; third, 
the white Iceland poppy; fourth, the 
white Japanese bell-flowers {Platy- 
codon) ; fifth, Physostegia alba, the 
false dragon’s head; sixth, “Fair 
Maids of France’’ {Ranunculus aconi- 
tifolius fl. pi.) ; seventh, the knot-weed 
{Polygonum compactum) ; eighth, the 
meadow' sweet; ninth, the white 
Stokes’ aster, and tenth, the “snow 
queen” {Iris Sibirica). Then I might 
add a Speciosum album lily and some 
flow'ering spurge, wdiich is Euphor¬ 
bia corollata. With this even dozen, 
flowers all summer and a composition 
to delight the eye of the most exact¬ 
ing would be assured—-providing, of 
course, they w'ere w'ell arranged. 
\)'hat constitutes good arrangement, 
given these twelve to w'ork with ? 
Let us take the first three—I have 
named them in the order of their 
merit—for a beginning, with the hor¬ 
izontal motif to dominate. Foxgloves 
are vertical. The other two are not, 
save as the height of the marshmal¬ 
low brings its great blossoms well 
above the ground. The poppy will 
furnish a decidedly horizontal ef¬ 
fect, if thickly massed. I would have 
a great many of the poppies, a clump 
of the marshmallow at one side of 
their mass, and a guard of foxgloves 
perhaps a third of the distance along 
from the marshmallows and back of 
the poppy field. I would not put the 
foxgloves at one end af the mass of 
poppies, and the marshmallows at the 
other; that would not be good com¬ 
position, even though the lines were 
distinctly vertical in the one and glob¬ 
ular, or all-over, in the other. Plan 
to rise at one side of such a group; 
never at both sides, nor in the middle. 
Adjoining the poppy field, knot- 
w'eed would look well, with its light 
and foaming effect; not a great deal 
of it, but a broad clump. Then should 
come a good big mass of the Jap¬ 
anese bell-flower, wdth the Stokes’ 
aster before it and running on past 
it, and all over the width of the 
border for a bit. After this a goodly 
clump of the wdiite Siberian iris; 
next Physostegia, with “Fair Maids 
of France” in front of it—a lot of 
both, but more of the second than 
of the first, so that there would be 
space for a few more foxgloves be¬ 
fore the end of their mass is reached. 
A great number of the lilies could 
come next, filling the entire space at 
first, but gradually running toward 
the back of it, to make room for a 
clump of meadow-sweet; more 
marshmallows next the lilies at the 
back, and a mass of Euphorbia be¬ 
fore them and extending beyond to 
the end of the space—and there are 
the twelve! I am assuming the 
planting space to be a 3' or 4' bor¬ 
der, extending along a walk and to 
be seen from the walk side only. If 
it were to be seen from both sides, it 
would only be necessary to carry the 
planting of the foreground around 
and make it the foreground on the 
opposite side as well. 
Growing Habits 
All of these things are easily 
grown—and perennial, except the 
foxgloves, which are biennial. As 
these reseed themselves, however, it 
is not always necessary to provide 
seedlings each year, though I find 
it more satisfactory to do so usually 
for the reason that the seedlings sel¬ 
dom come up just where you want 
them to be. Moreover, they are liable 
to be choked off by the plants of the 
previous generation. 
Instead of planting seed each year, 
you ma}' simply take up as many of 
the seedlings that have sprung up 
around the parent plants as you are 
going to want, set them out where 
they can grow all their first summer 
undisturbed, then shift them to their 
proper places in the autumn or early 
in the next spring. 
{Continued on page 66) 
