5

This hotel is conducted like one in Europe. The
food very good indeed rooms comfortable.
The servants are Japanese. This afternoon we
went for a drive in a jinrickisha each little
carriage drawn by a man who runs at a
fast pace. If the road is hilly a second man
goes to assist. The charge is most moderate.
This afternoon from 3 to 6 we had 3 jinrickishas
with 2 men. The cost was only 2 [Mexican] dollars
and 76 yen. The views were delightful and the
day perfect. We saw a very strange garden
with wonderful chrysanthemums grown
on a single stem and then trained over
a bamboo frame work and made to grow
in a sort of pyramid form in regular
rows. A tall one in the center, and the others
in regular lines below. One had 4 tiers
of blossom and must have been quite 6 feet
across. The stem was not thick & had
to [tether ? ] a thick piece of bamboo. The effect was
certainly very strange to our eyes and one plant
I counted 7 fine flowers. The whole garden was covered with a reed curtain or
screen and each plant was hilled up about 18 inches. In the same garden we saw numbers of the dwarfed trees prized by these people.

This hotel is conducted like one in Europe. The
food is very good indeed rooms comfortable.
The servants Japanese. This afternoon we
went for a drive in a jinrickisha each little
carriage drawn by a man who runs at a
fast pace. If the road is hilly a second man
goes to assist. The charge is most moderate.
This afternoon from 3 to 6 we had 3 jinrickishas
with 2 men. The cost was only 2 [Mexican] dollars
and 76 yen. The views were delightful and the day
perfect. We saw a very strange garden
with wonderful chrysanthemums grown
on a single stem and then trained over
a bamboo frame work and made to grow
in a sort of pyramid form in regular
rows. A tall one in the center, and the others
in regular lines below. One had 4 tiers
of blossom and must have been quite 6 feet
across. The stem was not thick and had
to [ ? ] a thick piece of bamboo. The effect was
certainly very strange to our eyes and one plant
I counted 7 fine flowers. The whole garden was covered with a reed curtain or
screen and each plant was hilled up about 18 inches. In the same garden we saw numbers of the
dwarfed trees prized by these people.