Blue waters and green and the Far East today . al, diminutive, conven-tional, without a touch of nature. In none of thegardens and in none of the public parks is there anygrass. Somehow the idea of a lawn has never pen-etrated the oriental mind. They dont know howbeautiful a bluegrass lawn can be—more beautiful,to my mind, than all the formal gardens in the has heard of some ivory carvings and some thingsthat she had not priced yet, and so I left her at herfavorite pursuit and went alone to Nikko. NIKKO. This famous old temple city of Japan lies well upin the northern part, one hundre
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . al, diminutive, conven-tional, without a touch of nature. In none of thegardens and in none of the public parks is there anygrass. Somehow the idea of a lawn has never pen-etrated the oriental mind. They dont know howbeautiful a bluegrass lawn can be—more beautiful,to my mind, than all the formal gardens in the has heard of some ivory carvings and some thingsthat she had not priced yet, and so I left her at herfavorite pursuit and went alone to Nikko. NIKKO. This famous old temple city of Japan lies well upin the northern part, one hundred and fifty milesfrom Tokio. It was a Sunday when I started, anexcursion day, and the train was crowded with for-eigners mostly going to the watering-places thatline the eastern slopes of the hills this side of a junction point most of them left, and I had thecar nearly to myself. As you go north from Tokio the country growswilder, less cultivated. There are wide areas, levelenough, where nothing grows but scrub pine and oak. [268]. JAPAN Whether it can be cultivated or not I do not know,but certainly that part is not thickly settled; infact, near Nikko it is the reverse. I have said muchabout Japanese agriculture, but whether it is to bepraised or not remains a question in my mind. Cer-tainly it is minute, for average holdings do not ex-ceed an acre. Japanese authorities say that it isunscientific, old-fashioned, and that much can bedone, is being done, to improve its methods. Forinstance, only twelve per cent of all Japan is in culti-vation. Some writers, assuming that Japan re-sembles other countries, where on the average forty-eight per cent is tillable, say that Japan does notmake the most of her natural resources. But itmust be remembered that Japan is a series of islandsof volcanic origin, with but a small percentage oflevel land. Still, it is true that I saw miles of countrythat in Belgium or France would be raising trees, ifnothing else. In Switzerland, regi
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