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fruit and flowers colored by his hands appear in early volumes of the 

 California Horticulturist. 



The still earlier and yet more rare California Culturist of W. Wads- 

 worth, which began with June., 1858., and continued two years, con- 

 tained a good deal of floriculture. 



In May, 1888, at Santa Barbara, appeared the California Florist, 

 an attractive publication, which soon moved to San Francisco and there 

 continued until May, 1889. Since that date outside of trade publica- 

 tions, catalogues, and occasional pamphlets the floral interests of Cal- 

 ifornia have been without a separate publication, but they have never 

 lacked for space, whenever required, in other periodicals. 



There have been few books in the past twenty-five years which deal 

 other than casually with the floral field, but there have been many and 

 excellent botanies, chiefly local, and more are being written, so that 

 before long the whole field will be covered, and brought down to date 

 with revised nomenclature and description. In these brief limits, you 

 can not expect even a partial bibliography of either the popular or the 

 technical writings on California botany or floriculture. Beginning 

 with the writings of Kellogg, Bolander, Lemmon, Miller, Ludeman, 

 Wickson, Eixford, Sievers, and others, the list ends with the many 

 bright people who write for the press on these topics at the present 

 time. Books like Bartlett's "Breeze from the Woods/' and Mary 

 Elizabeth Parson's "Wild Flowers of California," and sucli pamphlets 

 as Lyon's "Gardening in California," and Krause's "Sweet Pea Ke- 

 view," have a real historical value, while Kellogg's "Forest Trees/' 

 Green's "West American Oaks" and "Flora Franciscana/' and last and 

 up with the present state of knowledge on the subject, is Jepson's 

 "Flora of Middle California," which has just issued from the press. 



University of California. 



