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almost indispensable when they are seen doing well in the 

 neighborhood of the sea, and the honeysuckles and Vir- 

 ginia creepers we would certainly find that we could 

 not spare. Some of the best herbaceous plants for the 

 seashore are the coreopsis lanceolata, the eulalia japon- 

 ica, the different kinds of sun-flowers, the irises, par- 

 ticularly iris pseudoacoris, garden phloxes, hollyhocks, 

 hibiscus calif ornicus and H. moscheutus, and the marsh- 

 mallow, alva alcsea, asclepias or milk-weeds, statice, 

 pyrethrum, or chrysanthemum uliginosum, double and 

 single silphiums, and helenium autumnale. These plants 

 constitute a collection of trees and shrubs and peren- 

 nials that do well at the seashore, and though there are 

 others, there are but a few others that "^ill do nearly as 

 well. 



Before leading this subject, the author will risk the 

 chance of making himself wearisome by reiterating, in 

 the most emphatic manner, his advice in regard to the 

 importance of using abundant quantities of strong, rich 

 loam on the sandy soil of the seashore, and of applying 

 large amounts of water when the rainfall is insufficient. 

 In that way only can successful lawns and plantations be 

 secured under the stress of sea-breezes and the difficult 

 conditions of beach territory. 



On rocky shores the problem remains much the same 

 as on sandy shores, because disintegrated rock is apt to 

 constitute a chief part of the meager soil between the 

 stones, and although such soil, especially if the region 

 be more or less wooded, is not likely to be so poor and 

 unfertile as that of pure sand beaches, yet the bleak 

 winds and sea-air make the gro^^i:h of trees and shrubs 

 difficult, except by the use of such \igorous species as 

 are mentioned in this chapter. 



