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PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUS 

 "Cream-Cups" 



Others. In the oak grove the baby-blue-eyes seemed perfectly at 

 home while the collinsias peeped out from beneath the shade of elder- 

 berries. There were mariposa lilies too and brodiaes scattered among 

 the other flowers; floral firecrackers and tiger lilies mingled with the 

 brake ferns under the redwoods. Artists painted pictures of it, 

 every day students and nature lovers visited it, birds, bees and but- 

 terflies made it their home. As visitors came down the main path 

 they felt the breath of the wild and forgot they were almost in the 

 heart of a big city. "Why its just wild" they would exclaim. This 

 spontaneous expression of their feelings was very gratifving to me for 

 I felt that I had really achieved MY WILD GARDEN. Several 

 newspapers and magazines wrote descriptions of the garden, and I 

 received many very complimentary letters concerning it; two of 

 these letters I am reproducing here. 



Los Angeles, Calif., June 7, 1916. 

 Dear Sir: 



I feel that there rests upon me a moral obligation which 

 is not discharged until I have thanked you for the hours of 

 unalloyed pleasure your garden of wild flowers has afforded 

 me and the members of my family. As far as I know the 

 park is unique. In all my travels over this world I cannot 

 recall having seen anything like it. I hope that your work 



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