hardy plants of English and Colonial gardens — monkshoods, 

 peonies and irises, larkspurs, phloxes, lilies, starworts, globe 

 flowers, and a host of others — with their new companions can 

 be grown in the deep soil with little care. Many of them, like 

 the day lilies and the Solomon's seal, the lily of the valley and 

 the peach-leaved bell-flower, become completely naturalized and 

 often hold their own successfully against invading native plants. 



A mile to the west of this, another path — named in 

 memory of Mr. and Mrs. Morris K. Jesup of New York, to 

 whom Bar Harbor owes its beautiful Public Library and 

 New York City its magnificent Natural History Museum's 

 great endowment — leads from the neighborhood of the Build- 

 ing of Arts, placed directly facing the nearer mountains of 

 the Monument in one of the most beautiful situations in the 

 world, down past the golf links with a fifty-foot strip reserved 

 along its side for hardy garden planting; then drops to the 

 level of the sheltered heath, which it crosses presently — 

 shaded by maple woods — and passes on, skirting the Delano 

 Wild Gardens and the mountain base, to meet the Kane 

 Path and the entrance to Kurt Diederich's Climb at the outlet 

 of the Tarn. This path, until the heath is reached, lies over 

 cultivated farmland of an earlier time, with a deep soil and 

 south exposure, and there is no better spot upon the Island 

 for planting of the kind intended, nor a course more interesting. 



Between these other two a third approach — the Cadillac — 

 is planned, starting from the Bar Harbor Athletic Field and 

 Park, where the Government ofiice is, and following up the 

 brook that comes down to it from the mountains and the 

 Spring. Along this also remarkable opportunities exist for 

 arboretum and experimental planting, while the wild fern and 

 woodland gardens, succeeding to the open heath, which it 

 will enter as it nears the Spring, show under singularly favor- 

 able conditions the range and beauty of the native flora. 



The plan for these approaches has been adopted only after 

 long consideration and study of the plants intended to be 

 shown, as well as of the landscape opportunity and soil con- 



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