Six Things a Garden Should Be

Next to the castle is a garden. In the middle is a big pond. There is a stone bridge and a stone lantern. Under the water, koi fish turned slowly. Some were orange. One old fish was black.

The name means the garden of six good things. An old idea says a garden needs six things, and no garden can have them all. People could visit from eighteen seventy-four.

Every year on the first of November, the work starts. Gardeners put a tall pole next to each big pine. Ropes go from the top to the branches. The tree sits inside a big cone of rope. The snow here is very heavy.

One famous pine needs eight hundred ropes. Polly watched the fish turn.