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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella, ill · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 95

An illustration from The flowers and gardens of Japan, 1908, leaf 95
ck ofa merchants house 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 Water shape, fed by a fast-flowing stream… … LANDSCAPE GARDENS 53 growing out of the rock, and a few azalea bushesfillmg the interstices of the stone, forming a mostattractive feature of the garden ; banks there wereplanted with more azaleas; pines, kept dwarfed toabout two feet in height, grew out of cushions ofthick moss; bridges crossed…

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