TREES AND SHRUBS FOR SEASIDE PLANTING

A peculiar situation exists in the relative hardiness of trees andshrubs for seaside exposures. Plants which are entirely hardy on ex-posed river front and fresh water locations are apt not to thrive at theseaside, especially along the Maine Coast and the more exposed pointsof New England. Where the climatic conditions of the winter are notextremely severe, as on Long Island and the points farther south,most of the hardy trees and shrubs are well adapted. There are loca-tions on the exposed frontages of the Great Lakes where conditions areequally as severe as are conditions on the east coast of the northeasternUnited States. The salt air condition and the salt spray during thewinter months does not become a factor, however, in lake front ex-posures.