10 
House & Garden 
No less a personage 
than Mary Pickford 
herself has posed in 
worship before the 
statue of Buddha, a 
tribute at once to the 
genuineness of the 
220 - year - old figure 
and to the perfect re¬ 
production of the Jap¬ 
anese atmosphere 
in 
NEW 
JERSEY 
The Japanese Garden on the Estate of 
P. D. Saklatvala, Esq., at Plainfield, N.J. 
Shobu-no-to, the Iris Teahouse, is at one end of 
a little pond where goldfish drift indolently about 
under the watchful eye of a bronze crane. 
Through a wistaria covered pergola the path 
from the teahouse crosses a stone bridge to 
Matsu Yuma, the Pine Tree Hill 
NIPPON 
From the teahouse one 
looks out in one direc¬ 
tion to the dense shade 
of trees, and in the 
other to a sunny open 
where water, rock and 
stump lend contrast to 
the iris and little pine 
trees at the right 
