GARDEN UNDER DIFFICULTIES 



in the autumn at such places, the better will be the 

 result the following season. 



Specialized gardens have also been made very 

 beautiful in some soils of seaside places that would 

 have been ill suited for growing a variety of plants. 

 Roses, unfolding in June, the time of many desires, 

 and irises, with their prolonged period of bloom, in 

 a number of instances have been treated so charm- 

 ingly as to make one almost forget the existence of 

 other flowers. 



Builders of successful seaside gardens must, in 

 truth, put a curb on the wish for all sorts and varieties 

 of flowers. At the very outset of planting, a selection 

 should be made of the plants best adapted to the 

 peculiar positions they are desired to hold permanently. 

 The old saw, "Work well begun is half done," especially 

 applies to all garden building. 



To start a garden with plants whose natural 

 habitat is away from the sea can but result in sore 

 disappointment and the labor of replacing them 

 at the price of dearly bought experience. Even in 

 the most desirable situations, the intense heat of the 

 American summer, the usual summer drought, and the 

 brilliant, almost unfailing, light prevent the gardens 

 here from thriving as freely as they do under the 

 moister atmosphere of England. Many seeds brought 

 from there and planted in our gardens show unusual 

 brilliancy of color the first year, but quite lose their 

 superiority in the seeds they produce. To keep up 

 their high note of color the seeds must be imported 

 each year from the old country. Still, the atmosphere 



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