BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



tion. On the coast particularly flowers grow most luxuri- 

 antly, even within a few hundred yards of the surf, where 

 snug gardens protected by windbreak hedges blossom as 

 serenely as in an inland meadow. Not long ago most 

 people believed that gardening or gardens near the sea 

 were an impossibility; but when they realized the hardiness 

 of certain dense shrubs that make perfect hedges and wind- 

 breaks, gardens on the shore sprang rapidly into existence, 

 and we of the inland are apt to envy nature's partiality to 

 seaside flowers. 



MAINE 



At Bar Harbor on the island of Mount Desert, Maine, 

 as in other places of this latitude, the season, of course, 

 begins later and ends sooner than near New York City. 

 The flowering period is from five to six weeks shorter at 

 Bar Harbor. However, the wonderful summer climate 

 somewhat atones for this briefer season, and the gardens 

 of Maine can boast of unusual luxuriance, in richness of 

 color and size of plants, with but little heat or prolonged 

 drought to affect their best development. The hardier 

 seeds sown in the open will germinate in mid-May; tender 

 annuals in June; the plants of tender annuals go out soon 

 after June 10. Daffodils appear about May 15, followed 

 by late Tulips; German Iris appears in the week of June 

 10; Sweet William and Roses in early July; Delphinium in 

 mid- July, and Hollyhocks about July 28. Late Phlox is 

 at its best by mid- August. 



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