GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



shows its white flowers in April, then holds them 

 throughout the day of grape hyacinths and daffodils, 

 and sometimes even lingers to greet the roses. 



There is another little perennial, Phlox subulata, 

 the moss pink, which occurs in white and in rose, and 

 which gives great delight to seekers of bloom in the 

 first days of spring. It grows no higher than the 

 grass, with which it harmonizes well, and it also does 

 well about the edges of rocks. It grows in scant, 

 poor soil, asking nothing, giving a great deal. In 

 truth, it spreads a veritable carpet of its white or rosy- 

 tinted flowers, and is so beautiful at the time of the 

 blossoming of the golden bells that I have often won- 

 dered why it is not more extensively seen through 

 lawns apt to become sunburned, and in various rocky 

 nooks of seaside places. 



Armeria maritima, the sea pink, or thrift, is also a 

 pretty plant with pink flowers that well outline a rock- 

 ery. It grows taller than the moss pink, approaching 

 usually a height of one and one-half feet. 



Adonis vernalis, with its large yellow flowers, is 

 also in the group of charming, low-growing spring 

 plants. The shape of the blossom suggests cosmos, 

 and fairly startles one as it unfolds near the ground. 



The English primrose, Primula vulgaris, makes a 

 charming border for beds of irregular outline in which 

 the early blooming bulbous plants have occurred. It 

 does well by the sea in moist spots where the mid- 

 summer sun cannot burn it severely. 



Dioentra spectabilis, bleeding heart, an introduction 

 from northern China, is a fine thing for shady nooks 



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