BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
Thus the plants beginning to bloom near New York 
City in May and early June do not, on account of the 
colder spring, appear at Bar Harbor for several weeks to 
come, when they unite their bloom with the flowers of 
a later period. The slow-coming spring retards earlier 
bloom, but has less effect on that of midsummer. The 
summer residents owning gardens in Maine rarely arrive 
much before the last of June, and consequently such early 
bloomers as Tulips, etc., are not seen as often as in the 
milder climates. In this northern State frost usually de- 
stroys the garden by September 15. 
Not only is it possible to grow all the favorite flowers 
along the shore, but even on the islands lying off the coast 
of Maine there are innumerable little gardens, such as 
those at Isleborough, which revel in the moist sea climate 
of midsummer and blossom most satisfactorily until frost. 
At this point it is interesting to contrast the climate of the 
North Atlantic section with the region directly across the 
continent along the Pacific coast, where at Vancouver’s 
Island, for instance, plant life enjoys a climate similar to 
that of England, with a growing season quite as pro- 
longed. 
There are beautiful gardens at Bar Harbor, on the es- 
tates along the shore as well as farther inland. Most of 
them, screened by fine growths of trees and shrubbery 
from view of the highway, are equally well protected from 
sea-winds, blooming luxuriantly in spite of the fact that 
not very long ago the best authorities believed that gar- 
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