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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella, ill · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 23

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thesame time to enlarge his garden. A landscapegarden may be of any size, from the miniaturescenes, representing pigmy groves, and mossyprecipices, with lilliputian torrents of white sand,compressed into the area of a china dish, to thevast gardens with their broad sheets of water andmajestic trees… … LANDSCAPE GARDENING 5 place in a small garden, and small stones in a largegarden would be equally unsuitable. The teachersof the craft have been most careful to preserve thepurity of style. Over-decoration is condemned asvulgar ostentation, and faulty designs have evenbeen regarded as unlucky, in…

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