238 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



of flame. How can people be so senseless as to come 

 seaward to cool their bodies, and yet so surround them- 

 selves with scarlet that it is never out of range of the eye ? 



Lavinia Cortright and the botanical Bradfords, as 

 Evan calls them, because though equally lovers of flowers, 

 they go further than some for the reason why that lies 

 hid beneath the colour and perfume, have laid out and 

 are still developing a sand garden that, while giving 

 the cottage home the restful air that is a garden's 

 first claim, has still the distinct identity of the sand 

 and sea! 



To begin, with one single exception, they have drawn 

 upon the wild for this garden, even as you are doing in 

 the restoration of your knoll. Back of the cottage a 

 dozen yards is a sand ridge covering some fairly good, 

 though mongrel, loam, for here, as along most of the 

 coasts of sounds and bays, the sea, year by year, has bitten 

 into the soil and at the same time strewn it with sand. 

 Considering this as the garden boundary, a windbreak 

 of good-sized bayberry bushes has been placed there, not 

 in a stiff line, but in blended groups, enclosing three 

 sides, these bays being taken from a thicket of them 

 farther toward the marshes. 



An alley from the back porch into this enclosure is 

 bordered on either side by bushes of beach plum, that, 



