THE CULTURE OF COMMON PLANTS 



ALIFORNIANS are notably negligent of a 

 class of plants in the garden which in other 

 lands form the chief joy of every lover of 

 beautiful blossoms. We have grown so de- 

 voted to our perpetual sunshine and our per- 

 petual summer-time that we cry out as well for perpetual 

 blossom and "evergreen." 



As I have said very recently, this appetite, if I may so 

 call it, for ever-blooming plants shuts out from the collection 

 of the flower grower thousands of exquisite blossoms bom 

 for but a day, or a week, or a short period of existence. 



Annuals are fresh sown each season. Some may be 

 sown just where they are to blossom, while others must be 

 transplanted. Since one has the choice of thousands of 

 varieties, one may have beautiful annuals at any season of 

 the year in Southern California and in many sections of the 

 coast region by a choice of varieties which succeed each 

 other naturally, or by successive plantings. I am extrava- 

 gantly fond of pansies. Only at certain seasons can I buy 

 them at my florist's, and since no one of my friends seems 

 disposed to grow them specially for me, I am making prepa- 

 rations to have a constant succession of them in my little 

 garden. Candytuft, mignonette and sweet alyssum are 



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