House £5? Garden 
perceptions and the creative instinct ot an 
artist. Tall Japan lilies form a backing for 
yellow and white snapdragon. Gladiolus, 
red and white, towers above a bed of sweet 
alyssum. One of the larger beds is given 
to heliotrope, another to verbenas. Poppies 
are there in full glory, yellow, red, pink and 
white, their gray-green leaves and tall flower 
stalks crowned with shapely pods, a beauty in 
themselves even after the flowers are gone. 
On one of the longer sides of the garden is 
an exedra backed by white pine trees. There 
one may rest in the shade and drink in beauty 
and fragrance. Pots of white geranium stand 
on the wide back of the curving seat and 
HAC FRVOR 
H A C D O M I 
N 1 VALLE 
R E P O S T A 
S A L V S 
D E L I T V I - I A p 
A S T R A - P A 
TENT MI 
HI M V N E 
RE V A L L I S 
slender yew-trees mark its ends. In many 
parts of the garden are old Italian marbles, 
supporting newer flower pots from the same 
land of gardens, gay with blooming marigolds 
and geraniums. A carved marble bench calls 
one to rest among the tall phloxes in front of 
a bed of pale purple stocks. At the end of 
the main path a fragment of what seems to 
have been a pedestal, bearing Latin inscrip¬ 
tions and armorial bearings, holds water for 
the birds. The inscriptions seem particularly 
fortunate for a garden, since the writer gives 
thanks for health and happiness returned to 
him by communion with nature in some 
happy valley beneath the outspread stars. 
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