A SEASIDE GARDEN 241 



The rabbit-foot clover takes kindly to the sandy 

 soil, and, as it flowers from late May well into September, 

 and holds its little furry tails like autumn pussy-willows 

 until freezing weather, makes a very interesting sort 

 of bed all by itself, and massed close to it, as if rec- 

 ognizing the family relationship, is the little creeping 

 bush clover with its purplish flowers. 



Next, set thickly in a mass representing a stout bush, 

 comes the fleshy beach pea with rosy purple flowers. 

 When it straggles along according to its sweet will, it 

 has a poor and weedy look, but massed so that the some- 

 what difficult colour is concentrated, it is very decorative, 

 and it serves as a trellis for the trailing wild bean, a 

 sand lover that has a longer flowering season. 



A patch of a light lustrous purple, on closer view, 

 proves to be a mass of the feathered spikes of blaz- 

 ing star or colic-root, first cousin of the gay-feather of 

 the West, that sometimes grows six feet high and has 

 been welcomed to our gardens. 



On the opposite side of the beach-plum alley, the 

 Bradfords have made preparations for autumn glory, 

 such as we always drive down to the marsh lands from 

 Oaklands not only to see but to gather and take home. 

 Masses of the fleshy tufted seaside goldenrod, now just 

 beginning to throw up its stout flowerstalks, flank a bed 



