Panoramic View of the South Side of the Garden 
A JAPANESE GARDEN AT LANSDOWNE, PA. 
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FOR MR. CHARLES J. PILLING HY S. EURUKAWA 
Photographs by the Owner 
JAPAN, the land of five hundred autumns, 
^ as it has so aptly been termed, is teaching 
the American much that is beautiful and artistic 
in landscape gardening. First of all, let us not 
misunderstand the term “Japanese Garden.” Often 
the merest apology for a garden is called Japanese, 
just as every prim yellow house with white pillars 
is called Colonial. 
Neither is the grotesque or curious a part of the 
true garden; in fact the born Japanese gardener 
simply endeavors to copy nature, in miniature but 
not cramped: the mountain, the rocks, the trees. 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE GARDEN, LOOKING WEST 
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