102 WITH THE FLOWERS AND TREES 



dens you will find many and many a flower to re- 

 mind you of your beloved mesas and canons. And 

 I am in hopes that even Californians will, before it 

 is too late, wake up to this wild-floral treasure of 

 their land. For really, Californians are flower 

 lovers to a fine degree ; they all like their bit of gar- 

 den, and take a pride in keeping it going winter and 

 summer. The trouble is they pack it full of 

 geraniums and roses and other back-East flowers, 

 without realizing the wealth of pretty things on 

 the hills about them, asking to be invited in. How- 

 ever, some of the flower dealers in California are 

 waking up to this fact, and maybe the day is dawn- 

 ing when every California garden will have at least 

 a California corner." 



The California Poppy and Its Cousins 



There is one California wild flower that every 

 Calif ornian, however unobserving, knows and 

 loves, as the Briton his daisy or the Irishman his 

 shamrock, and that is the native poppy or esch- 

 scholtzia. Poets apostrophize it; artists paint it 

 and craftsmen work it into their handiwork; it is 

 sown in gardens and tradesmen employ it as a mark 

 for their brands of merchandise. Every spring 

 millions of its blossoms are brought indoors and 

 set in vases and bowls, where it illumines the rooms 



