230 HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 



extends to the use of strong loam in the holes where the 

 trees and shrubs are to be planted. 



Concerning the choice of trees and shrubs for a seaside 

 lawn, it will prove better to limit one's self to the few 

 kinds that are well known as having the vigor to resist 

 successfully the winds and salt air of the seashore than 

 to fail altogether in attempting to use too many shrubs 

 and most evergreens, that generally behave badly in such 

 regions. A few varieties of pines are exceptions. 



Among deciduous trees, there are several that do well 

 on the seashore, and notable among these we find the 

 Oriental plane tree, which is vigorous, well furnished 

 with foliage, and suited to resist the strongest sea- 

 breezes. In the same class will come the honey locust, 

 and the picturesque and always valuable wild cherry, 

 cerasus serotina. 



The catalpa has a vigorous habit that suits the sea- 

 shore, and the gingko, salisburia adiantifolia, is also 

 hardy and enduring in similar localities, while the 

 rhus cotinus and R. osbeckii also do well in the salt air, 

 but two of the most valuable trees of this kind will be 

 found to be the golden-barked willow and the laurel- 

 leaved willow. The willows generally are valuable on 

 the seashore, and the same may be said of the hardy 

 and picturesque native American thorns, Crataegus crus- 

 galli, etc. 



Some of the best shrubs for the seashore are the pri- 

 vets, the bush honeysuckles, lonicera fragrantissima, 

 the different kinds of philadelphus, rhamnus catharticus, 

 the sea buckthorn, myrica cerifera, the tamarisks, the 

 elseagnuses, the althaeas, the hydrangeas, and several 

 viburnums, notably V. prunifolium and V. opulus. 



There are many herbaceous plants that will seem 



