ORNAMENTAL PALMS AND 

 CLIMBING VINES 



VIEWS ON ARTISTIC TREATMENT 



VISITORS from the East are often sur- 

 prised to find palms growing thriftily at 

 Santa Rosa and also in nearly all parts of 

 the State. The average resident of northern 

 latitudes associates the palm with tropical con- 

 ditions. And while it is known to everyone that 

 these trees grow in southern California, it seems 

 a matter for wonderment that they should be 

 found so far to the north as the region in. which 

 my experiment gardens are located. 



In fact, isothermal lines make little or no dif- 

 ference in California, as the winds from the 

 Pacific, deflected by the mountains, determine the 

 climatic conditions, and produce quite unpredict- 

 able results. Thus it is that oranges are sold by 

 the carload from northern California before they 

 are even colored in the southern part of the State. 



And again, the palm is a relatively hardy tree, 

 in comparison, of course, with tropical plants in 



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