FLOWER-BEDS 



not only differ, but a change of locality might 

 render certain plants less desirable, and introduce 

 others which it would be impossible to raise at all 

 in the mountains of Maine. Thus, the farther 

 south we go the less profuse will be the bloom of 

 the Iceland Poppy, until at last we reach a point 

 where it will not live at all in the hot summer. 

 I have purposely avoided reference to the large 

 number of both annual and perennial plants which 

 I have tried to raise, but with little or no success. 

 It is possible that in many cases the seed was 

 defective and would not have germinated under 

 any circumstances, or the manner or time of 

 planting may have been wrong, or again the 

 weather may have been unpropitious, and the 

 seeds rotted in the ground. Every flower, there- 

 fore, which I have mentioned I have been able 

 to study for a number of years in the blooming 

 plant itself, and in most instances I have raised 

 the plants from seed, noting the fact specially in 

 describing the species wherever this was not the 

 case. 



We have on the island eighty distinct flower- 

 beds, most of which are simply round beds, seven 

 feet in diameter, though some are long and nar- 

 row, while others skirt around the edges of large 



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