BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



bad conditions, and to make the very most of the many 

 good ones. With the dark winters and short summers, 

 every ray of sunshine has to be used, and when in the 

 summer the sun shines all day and nearly all night for 

 three months, there is no time for loafing in flower land. 



"Just take a walk down through Fairbanks in July 

 and you will begin to think that wonders will never cease. 

 You will see flowers, that at home you had to coax and 

 nurse into growth, here in radiant, luxuriant masses. The 

 Pansies are unusually large, whole borders of them, and 

 paths bordered with beds a foot wide, filled to the edges 

 with changeable velvet. Sweet Peas grow up to the tops 

 of the fences, and then, if no further support is given them, 

 over they go, back to the ground again. All summer 

 the Nasturtiums climb nearer and nearer the roofs of the 

 cabins, and bloom and bloom in sheer delight. Some 

 paths are bordered with Poppies, big stately red and 

 white, and white and pink ones, or the golden California 

 beauties. These natives of warmer climes seem perfectly 

 at home in the Northland. Asters scorn hothouses and 

 grow in profusion wherever they are planted, and wher- 

 ever they are they are beautiful. They are as large as 

 the Chrysanthemums the Easterner delights in, and of all 

 the various changes of colors. By them, perhaps, will be 

 Dahlias as large and rich as any you have ever seen. The 

 more beauty-loving and flower-loving the owner of the 

 garden, the longer you will stay to look and wonder. 

 Candytuft, Sweet Alyssum, and Mignonette will greet 



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