GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



been entered, it would have been necessary to pick 

 them each day to encourage a continuance of their 

 bloom; dahlias and hollyhocks would have grown too 

 large for the spaces; salvia and red-hot poker plants 

 would have struck a note of color too high for the rest 

 of the garden. 



In fact, it is often by the process of elimination that 

 the comparatively few desirable plants are chosen for 

 special uses. 



Not every seaside place, unfortunately, affords 

 space for even a sample garden regularly made in a 

 somewhat formal design. To nearly each one, however, 

 there is a boundary line where at some point a hardy 

 border may be stretched. In regarding many such 

 lines of planting the question often arises: Are they 

 not overplanted? 



At one place near Seabright, New Jersey, there is 

 a remarkably lovely hardy border extending over two 

 hundred and fifty feet. At its back it is planted boldly 

 with shrubs, unfolding their respective blossoms in 

 succession, and very gradually it is tapered down to 

 meet the grass with shrubs and plants of lower stature. 

 Here, there are so many plants that they are almost 

 uncountable, yet they represent comparatively few 

 varieties. Their colors, moreover, are so skilfully 

 employed that the border appears all yellow at one 

 time, principally pink at another, blue and white at 

 still another, and bright crimson at the high tide of 

 the phloxes. 



If this border had been planted heterogeneously 

 instead of held closely to many eliminations, it would 



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