BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



of the lake region gardens which flourish all summer are 

 numerous. 



The Atlantic States have a shorter blooming season 

 than those on the Pacific coast. Throughout the South, 

 east of New Mexico, the warm weather season is as pro- 

 longed as on the Pacific coast, and yet in the Southern 

 States garden bloom is checked half-way through the 

 summer by excessive heat and drought (except in the 

 favored mountainous localities), which at least interrupt 

 the continuous succession of flowers. For this reason gar- 

 dening in the South except in spring, or in high altitudes, 

 is generally discouraged. 



Although not stated as an indisputable fact, scientifi- 

 cally, we are inclined to believe that the seacoast section 

 of the Maryland peninsula is the locality in the East 

 especially favorable to the most prolonged season of bloom. 

 Lying between sea and bay, this particular district in the 

 latitude for early spring and late frost enjoys also the bene- 

 fit of surrounding waters, escaping thereby the parching 

 summer climate from which gardens of the interior suffer, 

 to the west and south and to the north, almost as far as 

 Philadelphia. 



In Maine conditions are different; April and May gar- 

 dens are conspicuously absent. The flower season gen- 

 erally begins in mid- June and does not much exceed three 

 months, but in that period the bloom is exceptionally 

 luxuriant. The season is necessarily a short one, as it is 

 throughout this latitude westward to Oregon, where after 



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