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floribunda; A. longifolia; A. melanoxylon, black- 

 wood; Albizzia lophanta, crested wattle; Caloden- 

 dron capense, cape chestnut ; Casuarina stricta, beef- 

 wood or she-oak; Ceratonia siliqua, carob or St. 

 John's bread; Cinnamomum camphora, camphor 

 tree; Eucalyptus amygdalina, Messmate gum; E. 

 calophylla, white-flowering gum ; E. ficif olia, scarlet- 

 flowering gum; E. leucoxylon, white iron-bark; E. 

 platyphylla, broad-leaved gum; E. polyanthema, red 

 box; E. punctata, hickory gum; E. robusta, swamp 

 mahogany ; E. rudis, desert gum ; E. sideroxylon, 

 red iron-bark; Ficus macrophylla, Moreton Bay fig; 

 Grevillea robusta, silk oak; Jacaranda ovalifolia, 

 blue trumpet-flower tree; Ligustrum ovalifolium, 

 Japan privet; Nerium oleander, oleander; Pittos- 

 porum rhombif olium, saw-leaved box ; P. undulatum, 

 Victoria box; Quercus agrifolia, live oak; Q. suber, 

 cork oak; Schinus molle, pepper tree; Sterculia di- 

 versifolia, bottle tree. 



CONIFERS, OR CONE BEARERS 



Unless conifers may be planted in wide parkways 

 or along broad highways where sufficient space is 

 allowed for retention of the lower branches, their 

 use for such positions is not advised but on the con- 

 trary is condemned by all recognized authorities. 

 While it is better that planting space should be 

 broad enough to allow of natural pyramidal growth, 

 if the space is less than this, the tips or leaders of 

 branches may be nipped off when reaching a certain 

 length from the trunk, resulting in a cone-shaped 

 tree with its base still resting securely on the soil 

 beneath. 



California is singularly blessed with a long list 

 of native conifers, or cone-bearing trees, which are 

 much in demand where the climate will allow of 



