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NEW JERSEY 
It would take much time and long travel to discover 
the State possessing the greatest number of fine gardens, 
but there is little risk of misstatement in placing New 
Jersey as fourth or fifth on the list; New York, including 
Long Island, in the lead, then Massachusetts, and possibly 
Pennsylvania or California next. Near the sea the cli- 
mate is, of course, an especial incentive to flower-grow- 
ing, and along the Jersey coast, especially in Monmouth 
County, there are numerous gardens. Many excellent 
specimens are to be seen at Princeton, Trenton, Short 
Hills, and Morristown, as well as in the country around 
Bernardsville, in all of which places garden clubs are 
rapidly developing the cult. Only about fifty miles sepa- 
rate Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth Beach, in central 
Jersey, from Morristown, Short Hills, etc., at the north, 
so that spring gardens practically begin in both sections 
at the same time, with possibly not more than three 
or four days’ difference between them. While the south 
Jersey soil does not always encourage gardening, the 
northern half of the State may be considered on the whole 
quite fertile, and the summer temperature is not too hot 
for flowers. Occasional droughts are to be expected, but 
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