BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA 
bad conditions, and to make the very most of the many 
good ones. With the dark winters and short summers, 
every ray of sunshine has to be used, and when in the 
summer the sun shines all day and nearly all night for 
three months, there is no time for loafing in flower land. 
“Just take a walk down through Fairbanks in July 
and you will begin to think that wonders will never cease. 
You will see flowers, that at home you had to coax and 
nurse into growth, here in radiant, luxuriant masses. The 
Pansies are unusually large, whole borders of them, and 
paths bordered with beds a foot wide, filled to the edges 
with changeable velvet. Sweet Peas grow up to the tops 
of the fences, and then, if no further support is given them, 
over they go, back to the ground again. All summer 
the Nasturtiums climb nearer and nearer the roofs of the 
cabins, and bloom and bloom in sheer delight. Some 
paths are bordered with Poppies, big stately red and 
white, and white and pink ones, or the golden California 
beauties. These natives of warmer climes seem perfectly 
at home in the Northland. Asters scorn hothouses and 
grow in profusion wherever they are planted, and wher- 
ever they are they are beautiful. They are as large as 
the Chrysanthemums the Easterner delights in, and of all 
the various changes of colors. By them, perhaps, will be 
Dahlias as large and rich as any you have ever seen. The 
more beauty-loving and flower-loving the owner of the 
garden, the longer you will stay to look and wonder. 
Candytuft, Sweet Alyssum, and Mignonette will greet 
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