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Phacelia parryi is a handsome violet blue, with bell- 

 shaped blossoms that mass well with fems and other delicate 

 green plants. The pentstemons attract attention, one from 

 the San Jacinto Mountains being a brilliant scarlet, while 

 some magnificent royal purples are produced by San Diego 

 County. 



The Antirrhinum orcultianum is a graceful native snap- 

 dragon in white and violet, and Emmenanthe penduliflora 

 (whispering bells) is a bushy annual with light yellow 

 blossoms that interests the grower. 



If you are so fortunate as to be able to make long 

 rambles in search of wild flowers, you will often encounter 

 new varieties, and strange though it may seem, California 

 flora is as yet practically "undiscovered" to even the botan- 

 ical world. Should you desire to secure bulbs or seeds of 

 these beauties, you will need, of course, to mark the spot. 

 Some years ago I collected for European houses, and 

 learned that as I could not always be sure of "passing this 

 way again," I must make note of the locality in a book kept 

 for the purpose; and since my Mariposa lily, for instance, 

 would die down to the very ground before the bulb was in 

 proper condition for me to dig it, I must also mark the spot. 

 And so tiny little cotton pennants might have been seen 

 floating from many a shrub, or a tiny stake found beside 

 the lily stalk in the vicinity in which I made my collections. 

 Then when the proper season for digging or gathering seed 

 came, I, prompted by the dates in my note-book, could re- 

 turn to the spot and secure the coveted prize. It would be 



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