184 



The Garden Magazine, December, 1921 



with varieties of these families and occasional different families 

 that thrive in similar climates and soils elsewhere, to lend variety 

 to the garden. For, above all, a garden must thrive or it is 

 worse than no garden. 



Easterners are frequently astonished to find occasional beau- 

 tiful homes along the Western coast with sickly, half-dead gar- 

 dens, or none at all to speak of. One of the causes of this con- 

 dition is the spottiness, if one may use the word, of the Western 

 Coast. On one side of a tiny sapphire bay, Roses and Tulips, 

 Peonies and Cyclamen may thrive in the open beneath a sky of 

 perennial blue, while across the bay only the Wild Verbena, 

 Beach Asters, and Manzanita will withstand the fog, the wind, 

 and frequent sunless days. 



This condition has driven some settlers back to their homes 



in the East, others have become enamored of it and remained. 

 An artist, with the love of the beautiful deep in his soul, was 

 being hectored by one of those who had returned to the East. 

 "Why do you stay here?" asked the Easterner, "sooner or later 

 you all come to New York to sell your wares. Why not live 

 there?" 



The artist replied : " Would you rather live where the Roses 

 are grown or where they are sold?" 



Along the Pacific coast the shore-line garden is now being 

 grown. Soon it will be sold everywhere. The landscape 

 architect is having his problems, but they are slowly being 

 solved. Patience and a growing sympathetic knowledge of 

 conditions are making the Western shore the cradle of a char- 

 acteristically distinct type of garden. 



ON THE SHORES OF CARMEL BAY 



Nothing could be more appropriate than this Spanish house surrounded 

 by Palms, Yuccas, Lupines, and wild fields of California Poppies 



