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tive of prickly evergreens like those of the White 

 Wreath Aster. 



Oh, those Gardens of the Sea with their lavish 

 yield of beauty, spread forth freely for 

 the seeing and the gathering! 



The glowing flower colors sweep 

 broadly, even as the waves on 

 the beach beyond the sand 

 crest, over the rich black earth 

 that is in one spot brackish and 

 marshy and in another dry and 

 crumbling, the dividing line being, 

 perhaps, merely a ridge of wind- 

 drifted sand. 



The Sea Gardens are the Market 

 Places of the Flower Kingdom, in 

 even a greater degree than the way- 

 sides, for owing to this blending of 

 moist and dry land, plants of divers 

 natures find footing and stand well- 

 nigh side by side, Beach Plum and Service Berry, 

 Thistle and Water Plantain, Wood Lily and Sun- 

 drops; while Rose Mallows, Wild Rice, Salt Marsh 

 Fleabane and Samphire wade into the water on the 

 muddy side of a tide channel, and on the higher 

 sandy edge perch Fragrant Everlasting, Knotweed, 



