CHAPTER IX 



NEW CHINESE TREES AND SHRUBS FOR 

 THE PACIFIC SLOPE AND OTHER FAVORED 



REGIONS 



SOME SPLENDID EXAMPLES AMONG THE GREAT WEALTH 

 OF MATERIAL THAT HAS RECENTLY BEEN BROUGHT TO 



NOTICE 



THE region of the Pacific Slope with its mild and 

 genial yet diversified climate offers enormous 

 horticultural possibilities, and in the state of 

 California alone it is possible to cultivate out of doors 

 a greater variety of plants than in any other state of 

 the Union. In the North the climate is similar to that 

 of the west coast of Scotland; in the South it is like 

 that of Palestine; from San Francisco to Santa Bar- 

 bara it resembles that of the Riveira and Algiers. 



Among the great attractions at the Panama-Pacific 

 International Exposition in San Francisco and the 

 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego were the 

 remarkable floral displays Visitors from the East 

 and Middle West fully conversant with the horticul- 

 tural material grown in their own sections were 

 amazed and bewildered at the variety and the totally 



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