"In a Japanese Garden"
By Lafcadio Hearn

"No effort to create an impossible or pure ideal landscape is made in the Japanese Garden.  Its artistic purpose is to copy faithfully the veritable landscape, and to convey the real impression that a real landscape communicates.  It is therefore at once a picture and a poem; perhaps even more a poem than a picture.  For as nature's scenery, in its varying aspects, affects us with sensations of joy or solemnity, of grimness or of sweetness, of force or of peace, so must the true reflection of it in the labor of the landscape gardener create not merely an impression of beauty, but a mood in the soul."

Excerpted from:
The Atlantic Monthly
Volume 70, Issue 417
July 1892

 

  

Annual Members Meeting

The Annual Members Meeting will take place at the Garden Study Center in the Botanical Gardens of City Park on July 20th, 2005 at 5:00 p.m.  The following slate of officers and board members will be presented for approval by the membership.  Additional nominations will be accepted from members in good standing during the meeting.

 

President:                                           Dr. Jack P. Strong

Vice- president:                                 Dr. Tetsuo Nakamoto

Treasurer:                                           Mr. Johnny Martinez

Secretary:                                           Ms. Colleen Thian

Advisor/Past President:                  Mrs. Nancy Turner

 

Mr. Vaughn Banting                         Mrs. Gloria Battiste

Dr. David Borne                                Rev. Frank Candalisa

Ms. Kathleen Devitt                          Mr. Elroy Eckhardt

Mr. George Hirabayashi                  Mr. James Hollingshad

Mrs. Noriko Lastrapes                     Dr. T. Gray Malcom

Mr. Mike Mitchell                                Mr. Narutoshi Ochiai

Ms. Jeanne Okamoto                       Mrs. Carol Smith