GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



Besides the regular deciduous trees for lawn plant- 

 ing, there are many dwarf varieties, and others grown 

 as standards, that serve to beautify the grounds of 

 seashore places. 



The Camperdown elm, with its graceful habit of 

 sending out its branches almost horizontally and then 

 downward until they nearly touch the ground, has 

 formed a summer house within which many children 

 have played or hidden in high glee. For a grafted 

 tree it is remarkably sturdy. 



Tea's weeping mulberry droops to the ground, 

 and thus forms a shady roof more complete than that 

 of a green parasol. Its heart-shaped foliage gives it 

 an individual look, and although the direction of its 

 growth has been so changed by the art of man, 

 it nevertheless bears and ripens its mulberries at the 

 scheduled time. Not two hundred feet away from 

 the Sound, I have noticed two of these trees making 

 good growth and withstanding the severest winters 

 imaginable. In fact, a pair of chipmunks observed 

 them as well as I. In earliest spring, almost with 

 the snowdrops, they made their appearance about the 

 trees, coming as if from nowhere. They were chased 

 by dogs and by cats, and fired at by children; but 

 in every case, their ark of safety was the shelter of 

 the mulberry trees, from the branches of which they 

 loudly ridiculed their pursuers. But in the fruiting 

 time their pleasure was keenest. Then most pertly 

 they sat on the drooping boughs, eating their full of 

 mulberries day after day. 



Of marked beauty is the Japanese weeping cherry, 



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