BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



Thus the plants beginning to bloom near New York 

 City in May and early June do not, on account of the 

 colder spring, appear at Bar Harbor for several weeks to 

 come, when they unite their bloom with the flowers of 

 a later period. The slow-coming spring retards earlier 

 bloom, but has less effect on that of midsummer. The 

 summer residents owning gardens in Maine rarely arrive 

 much before the last of June, and consequently such early 

 bloomers as Tulips, etc., are not seen as often as in the 

 milder climates. In this northern State frost usually de- 

 stroys the garden by September 15. 



Not only is it possible to grow all the favorite flowers 

 along the shore, but even on the islands lying off the coast 

 of Maine there are innumerable little gardens, such as 

 those at Isleborough, which revel in the moist sea climate 

 of midsummer and blossom most satisfactorily until frost. 

 At this point it is interesting to contrast the climate of the 

 North Atlantic section with the region directly across the 

 continent along the Pacific coast, where at Vancouver's 

 Island, for instance, plant life enjoys a climate similar to 

 that of England, with a growing season quite as pro- 

 longed. 



There are beautiful gardens at Bar Harbor, on the es- 

 tates along the shore as well as farther inland. Most of 

 them, screened by fine growths of trees and shrubbery 

 from view of the highway, are equally well protected from 

 sea-winds, blooming luxuriantly in spite of the fact that 

 not very long ago the best authorities believed that gar- 



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