Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-05

with green or varieeated green and
white foliage. is pretty and graceful.
1t bears a wealth of pretty flowers in
June, and some casual blooms
through the season. Even in winter
its green-colored branches make it a
conspicuous shrub. 1t should be kept
low and bushy by pruning.
HANDLERS. Traiiers and Vines.
Rambler and Wichuraiana roses, in
their many varieties. but, of the
ramblers particularly Dorothy Per-
kins, bearing a perfect sea of double
pink blooms, and the equally fiori
ferrous double crimson boomers, En-
celsa, Crimson Rambler and Flower
of Fairfield-the latter having a ten
dency to bloom TO some extent
through the entire summer-are un-
surpassed for covering trellises,
fences, summer houses and pergolas
in seaside gardens. The nearly ever
green, rapid-growing Wichuraiana
varieties, for covering banks and
lodges, also, are almost uneXcelled.
For all of these several uses, vines,
also. but only such as are able to
withstand the sea gales. may be used.
First. for such purposes in every de-
lonicera, and the very best of these
for the seaside are Halls Japan,
Lonicera Halliana. which blooms from
July till December, and the Chinese
twining, Lonicera Japonica. Both are
nearly evergreen. The former may
be seen at Short Beach, Bradford,
Conn, growing luXuriantly over the
rocks, on the bluff directly above the
salt water
Another less-known vine for sea-
side use is the Akebia quinata,
beautiful slender branched climber,
but able to resist the sea gales, bear
ing a five-fngered foliage and small,
sweet scented purplish eolored flow
ers, followed by purplish notified ber-
ries. Other vines which will grow
near the sea are Clematis paniculata
and c. Kermesinus and Dutchman's
pipe vine, Aristolochia Sipho, but they
are not able. to resist the heavy winds
so well as the Loniceras and Akebia,
The Dutchman's pipe vine, with it's
immense heart-shaped leaves and
pipe shaped flowers, will grow best
on the shady side of the house.
Herbaceous Perennials.
Many of that interesting group of
plants known as the herbaceous per-
ennials give quite satisfactory results
i'm seashore gardens. Naturally, those
kinds which are dwarf in growth or
of only medium height suffer least
damage from the sea winds. Yucca
flamentosa takes very kindly to the
seashore, and a bed of these gives a
effect to a seaside garden.
Their tough, fibrous leaves withstand
any gale, and their tall, pyramidal
panicles of creamy white bell shaped
flowers are very handsome and state
ly. PhloX. hardy as an oak tree,
should be planted in seaside gardens.
Its wide range of colors and its long
Notwithstanding in July
make ii very desirable. The day lily
hemerocallis, in its many varieties,
is easily established at the seaside
and is summer bloomer; so is the
plantain lily, funlSia, a symmetrical
grower, quite diff .'ent from the day
lily, bearing either white or blue
blooms in midsummer or autumn.
The foliage of some of the plantain
lilies has a green-and-whi variega-
lion, and of these f. alba marginata
is excellent for edging beds of hardy
plants. Both the day and plantain
lilies are of easiest culture. The bal
loon flower, platycodon, bearing in
July blossoms, not only in all the
shades of blue but white as well.
on low-spreading plants, is worthy
of place in the garden by the sea.
Their blooms used as cut-flowers are
very effective. For producing a
wealth of blooms which may be cut
for table use from July until late
October, if the handsome flowers are
not allowed to go to seed, nothing
in the seaside garden surpasses the
blanket flower, Gaillardia grandi-
flora, and the Coreopsis lanceolata.
Campion, Lychnis Chalcedonica, and
it's double form, fore pleno, will give
a touch of brightness to the sea-
side flower beds, with their brilliant
orange-scarlet and vermilion-scarlet
flowers, and bergamot, monarda, par
ticularly the species, NJ. splendens,
producing in profusion its crimson
scarlet flowers in July and August,
will be equally effective in warmth
of color. Quite different from either
the campion-also often called ragged
robin-or the bergamot, in form of
flower. foliage and manner of growth,
and unsurpassed in many respects
for the seaside garden is the torch
or flame flower, Tritoma Pfitzerii,
producing spikes of brilliant orange
scarlet flowers from July until No
vember. The roots of this plant
netu a more imam ordinary neaNy
protection in the winter. IF the sea-
side garden is somewhat moist--but
not with salt water-last but not by
any means least desirable, is the
Japan iris, which produces in June
and July it's wonderfully beautiful
blooms in great profusion.
For an edge plant for the flower
beds in seaside gardens, when q
perennial is desired, in addition to
the Funkia alba marginata previously
there is the dusty miller,
Cineraria martina. This is an excel
lent plant for covering waste places.
also on the sand very near the beach,
At Westbrook, Conn, in the clear
beach sand, just above the high-water
mark, this plant grows freely year
after year, pieces of the plant appar-
emily having been thrown there by
accident, and having struck root in
the sand, as 1t will easily do.
Other herbaceous perennials and
shrubs may, no doubt, be successfully
grown in the seaside garden, or when
massed in beds on the lawn; but
those which have been mentioned
have been tried out and found de-
pendable, and furthermore are such
as will offer to the seaside cottage
occupants blooms during the summer
season, when they may enjoy their
beauty and fragrance.