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INDOORS ADVENTURES OUT WITH RARE FELICITY 



The little plaza in the garden of Mrs. Hiram Price Dillon, at Topeka, Kansas (Charles E. Birge, Archi- 

 tect), where the utmost seclusion reigns, notwithstanding the place, totals only a little more than half 

 an acre, is fragrant with memories as well as flowers, for the evergreens and large shrubs all about 

 were brought from "Knollcrest," the late Judge Dillon's New Jersey estate, to this home of his son 



A GARDEN THAT 

 IS LIVED IN 



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DELIGHTFUL PLANT RECEPTACLES BEFt)RE THE 

 WINDOWS 



From Venice they came, along with the lions that 

 pose against the well-grouped evergreens of the en- 

 trance, as supercilious as only stone lions can be 



FROM TURF TO TILE UNDERFOOT 

 UNCONSCIOUSLY 



The levels in garden making are factors that have 

 not been sufficiently studied, inasmuch as they J 

 are most potent influences for or against union 



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