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JAPANESE GARDENS

green, are more properly classed with water and rock gardens.

But all the gardens are green sometimes, just as Nature is, and they linger in the memory constantly verdant and fresh, joyous with the spring and soothing with the summer, never sad with autumn, and steadfast with the winter.