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pagodas"; yellow collomia, dainty, white, pale-yellow or pinkish "meadow 

 foam" (Floerkia), bright little "birds' eyes" (Gilia tricolor) , prim tidy-tips 



(layia), golden bartonia (Mentzelia 

 Lindleyi), rich blue California bell- 

 flower (Phacelia Whitlavia), and the 

 delicately cream-coloured " cream- 

 cups" (Platystemon Calif ormcus). 



In the shrubbery, also, California 

 is represented among the earliest 

 flowering shrubs of spring by the 

 beautiful pendulous, pink racemes of 

 the flowermg currant, with its spicy 

 odour, and the golden-flowered, 

 evergreen mahonia. 



I could easily describe a dozen 

 other species which would grace the 

 garden of the most fastidious lover 

 of flowers, provided he is not 

 wedded to the formal bedding-out 

 style of gardening. I may only 

 mention, however, the white forget- 

 me-not (Plagiobothrys), with its 

 fuzzy, warm bud-covering of rich- 

 brown hairs ; California children call 

 it the "pop-corn flower," but the 

 more poetic Spanish -Calif ornians 

 euphoniously named it Nievitas, the 

 diminutive of nieve (snow). This is 

 an annual plant, grown from seed, 

 and, like the gilias, is found on the 

 dry plains and hillsides of middle 

 California. Singly, this plant is not 

 showy, but sown in a mass it is 

 wonderfully effective. 

 T,;^) are charming spring flowers. There are 

 three or four species in California. The plant is also called " mosquito bills," 

 "wild C3^clamen," "mad violets," "prairie-pointers," " pickler-bills, " and 



Wintergreen and Indian pipe 



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