House and Garden 
THE TALL JAPANESE GATEWAY WITH ORNAMENTAL 
ROOF AND SIDE PANELS 
invitation to visit tliis charming spot. After noting 
the pleasing suhurhan home, of stone and slimgle 
construction, the broad sweep of lawn in front, the 
clumps of rhododendrons and 
other hardy flowering shruh- 
bery on the left, and a 
glimpse of greenhouse and 
gorgeous beds of blooming 
plants at the hack, one’s at¬ 
tention is immediately riveted 
upon the uni(|ue garden that 
occupies the central space on 
the right on approaching the 
home. Here, in view from the 
street, is the tall Japanese 
gateway with its ornamental 
roof and side panels, and 
typical fences of twigs and 
bamboo enclosing one of the 
most complete Japanese land¬ 
scapes in miniature that can 
well be imagined. 
The mountain in the dis¬ 
tance, and the slope leading 
down to the lake, show a pro¬ 
fusion of dwarf pines, and 
well arranged trees [and 
shrubs, all of Japanesevarieties; while the broad sweep 
of lake, which is well stocked with gold fish, displays 
quantities of the favorite plant of the “land of the 
lotus,” and many other aquatics. Rugged stairways 
of wood and stone lead up the mountainside, to 
where a quaint ishi-doro or stone lantern near the top, 
has been placed—apparently for lighting the visitor 
over the tortuous mountain paths. Sturdy old pine 
trees, masculine and gruff in their gnarled branches, 
numbering their years by nearly a century, and yet 
scarcely more than two or three feet in height, dec¬ 
orate the mountain slope; and the rustic bridges 
crossing the lake produce the same indisputable 
evidence of having been fashioned by the crude tools 
of the Japanese, with tireless painstaking care, to 
achieve Oriental ideas of beauty. 
Both stone and wooden lanterns are found in this 
ideal garden; and the approach to the lake is of 
particular charm because of the picturesque com¬ 
bination of stepping stones; close clustering shrub¬ 
bery, a stone lantern close beside the pathway; the 
famous “guardian stone” at the right, with a clump 
of minor stones about it; a tall wooden lantern still 
further along the path; characteristic Japanese 
foliage closely encircling both lanterns; and a sharp 
turn in the pathway leading to a bridge over the lake. 
I'here are several distinct types of stone lanterns in 
this garden. There is the low, quaint form set in the 
midst of shrubbery, with inscriptions on the base, 
probably extolling the virtues of some particularly at¬ 
tractive bloomer or.curiously trained specimen plant. 
I'he tall forms along the garden paths and on the 
mountain are representative of those found in the old 
temple yards, and there is the yukiim gata, or 
THE ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE RAILING ASSUMES THE FORM OF TORTUOUS 
FINE TREE BRANCHES 
