SAYIA ELEGANS 

 "Tidy Tips" 



MENTZELIA LINDLEYI 

 "Blazing Star" 



masses of wild flowers, it was placed where the flowers were the 

 thickest. Thus the garden became valuable from the student's stand- 

 point. All the schools of the city used it for their botanical .classes. 

 Students also came from Pasadena, Long Beach and other nearby 

 towns. 



Entering the garden from the north entrance on Figueroa street 

 the general color scheme was yellow. One of the first flowers to be 

 noticed was the little Sunshine (Baeria gracilis) covering the ground 

 with a perfect carpet of yellow, broken here and there with the large 

 cream-colored blossoms of the Malacothrix californica, opening to the 

 early morning sun. Then came masses of yellow mountain daisies, 

 and beyond these a perfect sea of tidy-tips with here and there a 

 patch of cream-cups, while large bushes of yellow lupine, sticky mon- 

 key flower and other shrubby plants rose above the smaller flowers. 

 A few stray plants of blue lupine, blue gilia and baby -blue-eyes added 

 greatly to the color effect. Further down the walk and near the 

 sycamore grove the color scheme changed to blues, lavenders and 

 purples, produced by masses of wild heliotropes, blue gilias, pent- 

 stemons and large blue bush lupines. Beyond this was a field of 

 orange poppies enhanced by splashes of blue and lavender from 

 lupines, gilias and thistle sage, while in the southeast corner was 

 billow upon billow of blue and white lupines. Then to the west were 

 golden blazing stars, lilac gilias, violet canterbury bells and many 



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