TREES AND SHRUBS FOR SEASIDE PLANTING : Page 506

Perhaps the most severe conditions of seaside exposure in the countryare along the shores of Penobscot Bay and the Maine Coast. In allornamental plantings in these locations it has been a question ofexperimenting to determine the trees and shrubs to be used to with-stand the extreme and severe conditions of the winter months. Thegrowing season is short. Therefore trees and shrubs which requirea longer ripening period in the mid-summer and early fall monthsare subject to considerable winter-killing because of the immaturecondition of the wood when freezing weather begins. This samefactor also deprives the early spring-flowering shrubs of the woodwhich produces flowers on buds formed the year before. The de-ciduous trees which are hardy along the coast of Maine are those whichare indigenous to that section such as beeches, red oaks, willows, andred maples. None of the more refined types of evergreens, with theexception of the red cedar and the prostrate juniper, have proved hardyin these locations. The American arborvitae in many instances ishardy, and in others has not proved hardy. The white cypress israrely seen. A number of shrubs which are included in this list haveproved themselves extremely hardy and able to develop into mature