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With Los Angeles as headquarters, many interesting public, 
private, and commercial gardens were visited. The Huntington 
Botanical Garden, at San Marino, is noteworthy for its extensive 
cactus gardens and its collections of subtropical plants. There are 
several nurseries in the vicinity of Los Angeles which make a 
specialty of rare plants, including the Coolidge Rare Plant Gardens 
at Pasadena, and the Evans’ Gardens at Santa Monica. 
On the way to San Diego, a stop was made, by invitation of Mrs. 
Susanna Bixby Bryant, at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. 
This garden of 200 acres was founded by Mrs. Bryant in memory 
of her father, John W. Bixby. Among other purposes, it is hoped 
to grow all the California species capable of thriving in the garden. 
The setting of the garden is magnificent, and much has already been 
accomplished in assembling Californian plants and displaying them 
in naturalistic plantings. 
In San Diego, Balboa Park and several private gardens were 
visited under the guidance of Park Superintendent John Morley. 
Miss Kate Sessions, one of the outstanding horticultural personali- 
ties of California, showed me many small private gardens. 
At Santa Barbara, several large estates were visited under the 
guidance of Mr. Lockwood de Forest. Dr. E. J. Bissell, Director 
of the Blaksley Botanic Garden, conducted me through that Gar- 
den, where plants native to California are displayed to call atten- 
tion to their horticultural value. Through the good offices of Mr. 
Curtis Redfern, I was enabled to see the famous “ Sacred Garden ” 
in the Santa Barbara Mission under the guidance of Father 
Stephen Mahoney. 
A week was spent in San lrancisco visiting Golden Gate Park, 
the University of California Botanic Garden, and various private 
gardens and nurseries. was invited to attend and address a 
meeting of the California Horticultural Society in San Francisco, 

and was made the first Corresponding Member of the Society. 
In Portland, through the kindness of Mr. Fred Borsch (who, in- 
cidentally, has a wonderful collection of alpines in his nursery ), 
a trip was taken to the region of Mt. Hood to observe the native 
flora. Several private gardens noted for their plant collections 
were visited. 
At Seattle, I addressed a meeting called in support of the 
