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its walls and columns, all of concrete, were 
soon made and plastered al Italiano. Terraces 
were levelled off; paths were laid down ; and 
privet hedges set. In a month we were ready 
to put in phlox, larkspur, foxglove, bleeding- 
heart and the rest of the old-fashioned things 
the growing things had made themselves at 
home than we had thought possible. The 
view of a part of the exedra taken but four 
months after the work was started, shows 
how willingly nature had lent a hand in the 
garden-making. Determined not to be with- 
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THE PLAN OF “ SEVENOAKS,” UPSAL, PHILADELPHIA 
THE GARDEN OF MR. FRANK MILES DAY 
C. F .— Cold Frames 
C. F. G. — Cut-Flower Garden 
L. P.—Lily Pools 
M. B.—Mixed Border 
R. G.—Rose Garden 
L.—Lilacs 
C. — Cherry Trees 
B. 0.—Black Oaks 
D. —Dogwood 
H.—Hemlocks 
R. C.—Red Cedars 
S. G.—Sweet Gums 
that were to grow within the box-bordered 
beds. Wild grape-vines were brought from 
the woods near by, and were started up the 
columns. Spice bushes and hollyhocks 
formed a screen at the back ; and a kodzu 
vine throve so mightily that by the end of 
summer we could sit beneath the shade of the 
pergola, quite shut in on all sides save the 
south, towards which we looked with no little 
satisfaction at seeing how much more quickly 
out the sound of running water, we pressed 
into service reproductions of two bronze 
fountain-figures, found at Herculaneum. 
One of these, a rollicking faun, was put at 
the back of the exedra, so that the stream 
pouring from the wine-skin under his arm 
falls into a pool hidden among iris leaves 
and king-fern. The water soon reaches the 
second fountain, where a patient fisherman 
presides over a marble basin that once 
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