NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS AND FLOWERS 



REQUENTLY people say to me: "I love 

 the wild flowers, and would like to introduce 

 them into my garden, but how can I get the 

 seed?" 



The easiest way is of course to have some 

 one else collect them for you, and so here is a list 

 taken from the catalogue of a local seed and plant com- 

 pany of some of the most valuable and showy of our annuals 

 which are now offered by most dealers and yet which are 

 (some of them) rare and difficult for the amateur collector 

 to secure. In the first place there is eschscholtzia, our 

 "Golden Poppy," world-famed and beloved. It is really the 

 duty of all flower lovers to continue the distribution of the 

 eschscholtzia as well as its improvement, for like most wild 

 flowers, it will respond to kind treatment with larger, finer 

 blossoms as well as furnishing a splendid basis for the work 

 of hybridizing. Buy a "ten-cent" package of seed and 

 sow in the fence comers or the vacant lot across the street, 

 and be sure to have one fine bed in your own grounds or 

 down in the wood lot where they may "run wild." 



Platystemon californicus is another poppy, not so 

 showy, but a dear, dainty little blossom, easily grown. It 

 is known along the seacoast as the "cream cup." 



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