BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
reaching the Coast or Cascade Range there is a change and 
the climate becomes more like that of England than Maine. 
Along the Atlantic coast from Maine to New Jersey, where 
the climate is ideal for flowers, the greatest proportion of 
Eastern gardens may be found, on the shore and inland as 
well. 
So much for the general climatic effects upon flowers 
of the more populous districts of our vast country. A 
few lines will suffice to treat the climate question in con- 
nection with hedge-plants. 
While the summer climate in the Southern States has 
not generally a salutary effect upon the flowers, yet it has 
favored the best development of Boxwood, Holly, and 
certain other choice shrubs and trees, which do not thrive 
well north of Philadelphia. Fine specimens of Boxwood 
are rare sights in New England, where the more severe 
winters have from time to time destroyed the top growth. 
Many old New England gardens show the characteristic 
Box-edged path, but the shrub is usually not over two feet 
high, and is likely to remain so unless eventually the 
winter climate should moderate. Boxwood is seen on the 
Pacific coast, north of San Francisco, but not to the south, 
where Cypress is popular. There is little Boxwood in the 
latitude of New York City, except for edgings, where for 
tall hedges Privet, Arbor-Vitse, Hemlock, and Spruce are 
probaby the most reliable evergreens. Arbor- Vitae is un- 
likely to live longer than seventy years. 
Although all of our States are not represented in this 
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