The bottle-brushes are favorites in California gardens. They are easily 

 pruned and are especially good for parks, schoolgrounds and private estates. 

 They grow well in any fair garden soil and require very little attention if the 

 ground is cultivated once a year and kept loose on the surface. 



A notable feature of the Melaleucas is their striking shred-like papery 

 bark, which peels off in wide layers and leaves the trunk clothed in a lustrous 

 corky layer of rare beauty. 



BRISBANE BOX 



The Brisbane box (Tristania conferta), named in honor of Tristan, a 

 French botanist, is an Australian tree that is widely used in New South Wales 

 on city boulevards. It is a handsome evergreen with broad shining leaves, 

 somewhat resembling the broader form of eucalyptus leaves, clustered on the 

 ends of the branches. The flowers are white and star-shaped with fringes of 

 stamens which give them a very unusual appearance. 



This tree has a good form and affords an abundance of shade. Under 

 favorable conditions it reaches a height of 100 feet. It stands drought re- 

 markably well and is hardy in central California. Its chief objectionable 

 feature is the dropping of its leaves throughout the year. It is also badly 

 affected with scale at Berkeley. 



CALIFORNIA LAUREL 



California laurel ( Umbellularia californica) derives its generic name from 

 the Latin umbella, a sunshade. It is one of the most characteristic native 

 trees of California, and is common along water courses in the coast ranges 

 and within the foothill zone on the west slope of the Sierras. It reaches its 

 best development on flats along the northern coast where it frequently be- 

 comes a tree eighty to 100 feet high and five to six feet in diameter. 



Sargent describes it as "one of the stateliest and most beautiful inhabitants 

 of the North American forests; and no evergreen tree of temperate regions 

 surpasses it in the beauty of its dark dense crown of lustrous foliage and in 

 the massiveness of habit which makes it one of the most striking features of 

 the California landscape and fit it to stand in any park or garden." 



The California laurel has many names, such as bay tree and pepperwood. 

 The leaves are highly aromatic giving an odor much like those of the bay 



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