GARDEN UNDER DIFFICULTIES 



There is, of course, a flora peculiar to the sea and 

 the sand. The sea cactus, Thyone briarcus, follows 

 the coast from Connecticut to Florida, growing just 

 below low tide. There is the sea daffodil, sea bind- 

 weed, marsh rosemary, sea pea, and innumerable other 

 plants of the beaches and salt marshes that have 

 fear neither of salt spray nor of the sea itself. Such 

 plants as these, however, are not those that should 

 form a garden, wherein upright growth and brilliancy 

 are desired. A garden exclusively of sea weeds and 

 plants would be a curiosity; beautiful, perhaps, if 

 viewed under a magnifying glass, but not at all such 

 a one as the average summer resident desires. 



To acknowledge the difficulties of a seaside garden 

 is, in a measure, to have overcome them. To locate 

 the garden in a spot sheltered from the fiercest blasts 

 of the wind, away from the salt spray, and where the 

 sun will not burn it too strongly, and especially to 

 discriminate in the selection of its plants, is to outline 

 the road to success. 



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