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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London : Adams & Charles Black · leaf 108

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se in Kyoto or Osaka has beentransformed into a perfect specimen of Hira-niwa.One I recall which always gave me as muchpleasure as the most extensive landscape garden inthe country. The lake was of the prescribed formknown as the Running fTater shape, fed by a fast-flowing stream which came in at… … LANDSCAPE GARDENS 53 growing out of the rock, and a few azalea bushesfilling the interstices of the stone, forming a mostattractive feature of the garden ; banks there wereplanted with more azaleias; pines, kept dwarfed toabout two feet in height, grew out of cushions ofthick moss; bridges crossed…

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