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SOME CHARACTERISTIC GARDEN FLOWERS 

 AND SHRUBS 



are certain sensations that come to you 

 JL but once in a lifetime. One is the joy of your 

 first ocean trip; another is the rapture which takes 

 you when, having slipped away from the wintry and 

 slushy East, you open your eyes some sunny Janu- 

 ary morning and for the first time see through your 

 Pullman window, in a setting of majestic mountains 

 lifting snowy summits to a turquoise sky, the palms 

 and roses and glistening orange groves of Southern 

 California. Around ranch-house and town-dwelling 

 alike, garden flowers clamber and nestle. Calen- 

 dulas, sweet peas and pansies, petunias, violets and 

 marguerites, geraniums of many colors banked some- 

 times house-high, are commonplaces of the humblest 

 home; callas, in places, grow literally as hedges; 

 carnations and violets bloom by the fieldful for the 

 cut-flower market. If the season is of average 

 mildness, fuchsias and heliotropes hide beneath 

 their massed bloom the cottage walls against which 



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