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should be the rule, but for a further reason. Unlike our own species that of 

 Hippophae rhamnoides seems to produce a majority of the male sex, and nine-tenths 

 of them must be cut out, so that the yellow-berried Amazons of the tribe may have 

 full scope to display their charms. Within these shelters, and even without them 

 the Japanese euonymus, both green and golden, will flourish, while Griselinia littoralis! 

 Escallonia macrantha and Olearia Haastii are only a few of the other evergreens 

 that have a friendly feeling towards the sea. But the subjects must be educated to 

 rough usages. Let them be pot grown or yearly transplanted stuff. Plant late in 

 spring. Use the local reed-screens against wind and sun. Be liberal with the 

 water-pot and the syringe when the air is hot and dry. Thus treated, tamarisks, 

 gorses and brooms will be thoroughly at home. None of these will mind a shght 



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-PLAN FOR A SHELTERED SEASIDE GARDEN. 



sprinkle of salt or a moderate buffeting of wind, and, if rightly arranged, they will 

 frame an enclosure as thoroughly protected as the sunk garden itself. That, with 

 its artificial bulwarks all ready, will offer an immediate harbourage. The tree- 

 surrounded oasis will be a future outlet for gardening energy. The early bulbs 

 already spoken of — not tulips merely, but daffodils and hyacinths, chionodoxas and 

 squills, anemones and crocuses — -should have an accompaniment of double arabis 

 and varied aubrietias ; of wallflowers, Alpine species as well as garden hybrids ; of 

 Blue-eyed Mary and rose-coloured Himalayan primrose. The last two will share 

 the dampest spot with some of the mossy saxifrages, while the low dry wall, which 

 sustains the wide walks that stretch out on a level from the loggia, will be the home 

 of the encrusted section and of sedums and houseleeks. Of the last named there are 



