BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
tion. On the coast particularly flowers grow most luxuri- 
antly, even within a few hundred yards of the surf, where 
snug gardens protected by windbreak hedges blossom as 
serenely as in an inland meadow. Not long ago most 
people believed that gardening or gardens near the sea 
were an impossibility; but when they realized the hardiness 
of certain dense shrubs that make perfect hedges and wind- 
breaks, gardens on the shore sprang rapidly into existence, 
and we of the inland are apt to envy nature’s partiality to 
seaside flowers. 
MAINE 
At Bar Harbor on the island of Mount Desert, Maine, 
as in other places of this latitude, the season, of course, 
begins later and ends sooner than near New York City. 
The flowering period is from five to six weeks shorter at 
Bar Harbor. However, the wonderful summer climate 
somewhat atones for this briefer season, and the gardens 
of Maine can boast of unusual luxuriance, in richness of 
color and size of plants, with but little heat or prolonged 
drought to affect their best development. The hardier 
seeds sown in the open will germinate in mid-May; tender 
annuals in June; the plants of tender annuals go out soon 
after June 10. Daffodils appear about May 15, followed 
by late Tulips; German Iris appears in the week of June 
10; Sweet William and Roses in early July; Delphinium in 
mid-July, and Hollyhocks about July 28. Late Phlox is 
at its best by mid-August. 
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