NEW JERSEY 



It would take much time and long travel to discover 

 the State possessing the greatest number of fine gardens, 

 but there is little risk of misstatement in placing New 

 Jersey as fourth or fifth on the list; New York, including 

 Long Island, in the lead, then Massachusetts, and possibly 

 Pennsylvania or California next. Near the sea the cli- 

 mate is, of course, an especial incentive to flower-grow- 

 ing, and along the Jersey coast, especially in Monmouth 

 County, there are numerous gardens. Many excellent 

 specimens are to be seen at Princeton, Trenton, Short 

 Hills, and Morristown, as well as in the country around 

 Bernardsville, in all of which places garden clubs are 

 rapidly developing the cult. Only about fifty miles sepa- 

 rate Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth Beach, in central 

 Jersey, from Morristown, Short Hills, etc., at the north, 

 so that spring gardens practically begin in both sections 

 at the same time, with possibly not more than three 

 or four days' difference between them. While the south 

 Jersey soil does not always encourage gardening, the 

 northern half of the State may be considered on the whole 

 quite fertile, and the summer temperature is not too hot 

 for flowers. Occasional droughts are to be expected, but 



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