THE GARDEN BOOK OF CALIFORNIA 



Layia elegans, Layia calliglossa (tidy-tips) and Layia 

 glandulosa (white daisy) are all showy ray-flowers, the first 

 named having a glow of yellow in its dainty petals. 



The leptosynes are interesting, too. There are among 

 them annuals and perennials. Leplostyne marilima is a 

 great golden ray-flower, a favorite because of its beautiful 

 cleft light green foliage; Leptosyne stillmani is another of 

 smaller size. 



The most royal of our native flowers is Romneya 

 coulteri, which is a bush-poppy and a perennial, having 

 grape-like white blossoms with golden centers and very 

 enormous in size, sometimes eight and ten inches in diameter. 

 Another bush-poppy, not so uniformly grown, but none the 

 less desirable, is Dendromecon rigidum, the "butterfly- 

 poppy"; and a bush of which certainly reminds one of the 

 dancing, airy butterfly. 



The delphiniums deserve special mention. The Delphi- 

 nium cardinale, which is rapidly becoming rare, and whose 

 vivid scarlet or cardinal hues cannot be duplicated in any 

 other flower, is one of these. This larkspur and its blue sis- 

 ter, Delphinium parryi, are eagerly sought by European 

 growers, so why not give them a place of honor at home? 



Nemophila insignis (baby-blue-eyes) is a dainty annual 

 in blue that pleases the refined taste, as does a violet or a 

 daisy. The "shooting-stars" of the children make striking 

 border plants and you can buy the seed under the name of 

 Dodecatheon clevelandii. They are perennial and very 

 useful as cut flowers. 



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