CHAPTER III 



MIDSEASON FLOWERING TREES AND 

 SHRUBS 



LITTLE REALIZED OPPORTUNITIES FOR FLOWERS IN 



THE SUMMER TIME — WHAT OUR PARKS AND GARDENS 



MIGHT EASILY DISPLAY 



THE geographical area of the United States of 

 America is so immense and the climate is 

 so diversified that there is ample room in 

 which to accommodate out of doors all the kinds of 

 woody plants known from the Northern and Southern 

 hemispheres outside of the tropics. In California 

 the trees and shrubs of the temperate regions of the 

 Southern Hemisphere thrive amazingly, and it is 

 probable that in this state alone a greater variety of 

 woody plants can be successfully grown in the open 

 ground than in any similar area in the world. I 

 mentioned the Southern Hemisphere, but it should 

 be added that the trees and shrubs of China, Japan, 

 the Himalayas, southern Europe, the Caucasus, and 

 the Mediterranean region of northern Africa are 

 equally at home in California. 



In contrast it may be stated that in the Arnold 



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