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The Garden Magazine, December, 1921 



A SHORE-LINE GARDEN ON "THE GOLDEN GATE" 



Which must contend with wind and weather and the scrambling urchins who 

 are no respecters of property rights. Mark Daniels, Landscape Architect 



the reason is that the effort has been to reproduce too faithfully, 

 with little or no consideration of the differences in climate, soil, 

 and natural growth, slight perhaps, but vitally important. Un- 

 doubtedly it is partly due to the designer's incomplete knowl- 

 edge of the locality in which he is working. For example, 

 one may stay a month on some ivory beach of the Pacific shore. 

 Every day of his sojourn confirms his first impression that here 

 is southern Italy outdone. But the day after his departure to 

 begin his plans for an Italian garden great clouds may roll up 

 from the horizon and fog banks may sweep in from the sea that 

 would destroy sixty per cent, of his carefully selected plants. 



It is this infinite variety of weather, never severe or extreme, 

 coupled with the suddenness of its changes that, to the minds of 

 many, sets the Monterey country aside in a class all its own. 

 Incidentally, it sets for the landscape gardener a problem whose 

 solution is maddeningly elusive. To the close observer, how- 

 ever, the answer is ever present. 



THERE is no time of year when masses of wild flowers are 

 not in bloom in certain localities along the Pacific coast. In 

 most instances these localities have already been chosen for 

 summer homes or village sites. If the garden designer will 



