GARDEN UNDER DIFFICULTIES 



Besides the sea there is the sun to make one ponder 

 before locating the garden. Undoubtedly, the greater 

 number of plants are sun lovers and dependent on 

 its light and warmth for much of their beauty. Many 

 plants, even, that are classified as shade loving, and that 

 are found in their natural haunts in secluded, dimly 

 lighted places, take on a briskness of growth that 

 is fairly surprising, when planted so that they can 

 enjoy the sunshine. The lily of the valley will lift 

 its stalk of elfin-like flowers as well in a place visited 

 by the sun as when planted in the shade of trees as 

 conventionally prescribed. Near the sea, however, 

 where the sun lingers and burns on the sand, its heat 

 and light are often so intense that plants droop under 

 them. To defy the sun, therefore, by planting shade- 

 giving trees and shrubs, is a means necessary to over- 

 come this difficulty. 



Still another obstacle is encountered by garden 

 builders who do not go to their country homes until 

 the first or the middle of June on account of their 

 cold, exposed positions. It is then late in the season 

 to sow many annuals, to reset perennials, and to do 

 other things that help make a pleasing garden. 

 Naturally, many annuals would grow and bloom if 

 planted this late, but they would reach their maturity 

 so near the day of frost that their beauty would be 

 short-lived. Cosmos, for instance, which has been 

 sown in some seashore gardens about the first of 

 June, has rewarded its sower by blooming just in 

 time to have its lovely heads nipped by Jack Frost, 

 and this in spite of its being one of the annuals 



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