there may have originally contained ponds. Only one survives, and this is stocked with koi. There are also several stone lanterns, which are meant to symbolise the illumination of one's path through life; similarly, the paths through the gardens are not straight. Japanese maple, Japanese anemone, cherry trees, evergreens, and bamboo are other typical features of Du Cane Court's gardens. According to David A. Slawson, many of the Japanese gardens that are recreated in the US are of "museum-piece quality". He also writes, however, that as the gardens have been introduced into the Western world, they have become more Americanized, decreasing their natural beauty. Australia Adelaide Himeji Garden, South Australia Auburn Botanical Gardens, in Sydney, New South Wales Canberra Nara Peace Park in Lennox Gardens, Canberra Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre, Cowra, New South Wales Melbourne Zoo, Victoria Nerima Gardens, Ipswich, Queensland "Tsuki-yama-chisen" Japanese Garden, Brisbane University of Southern Queensland Japanese Garden, "Ju Raku En", Toowoomba, Queensland Canada Nitobe Memorial Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia The University of Alberta Botanic Garden, Edmonton, Alberta, formerly named the Devonian Botanic Garden, which contains an extensive Japanese garden Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden, Lethbridge, Alberta The Japanese Garden and Pavilion, Montreal Botanical Garden, Quebec Kariya Park, Mississauga, Ontario United Kingdom England Compton Acres, Dorset Dartington Hall, Devon Hall Park, Leeds Harewood House, Leeds Holland Park, London St Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall Tatton Park, Cheshire School of Oriental and African Studies, London Northern Ireland Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park, Belfast Fujiyama Japanese Garden Scotland Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh – garden opened 2002 Ireland The Japanese Gardens at the Irish National Stud, Kildare, Co. Kildare Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens, Tramore, Co. Waterford United States Anderson Japanese Gardens (Rockford, Illinois) Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Brooklyn, New York) Chicago Botanic Garden (Glencoe, Illinois) Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at California State University, Long Beach (Long Beach, California) Richard & Helen DeVos Japanese Garden at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Fort Worth Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (Fort Worth, Texas) Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California) Hakone Gardens (Saratoga, California), used as a filming location for Memoirs of a Geisha Hayward Japanese Gardens (Hayward, California), the oldest traditionally designed Japanese garden in California Japanese Garden of Peace at the National Museum of the Pacific War (Fredericksburg, Texas) Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library (San