NATIVE TREES, SHRUBS AND FLOWERS j§| 



as a febrifuge. The Mariposas ("butterflies") are. world- 

 renowned, and, growing from a tiny bulb, are easily intro- 

 duced to the "wild garden." Some of the most beautiful 

 varieties are Calochortus albus, Calochortus venustus and 

 Calochortus iveediL The more recent botanies list twenty- 

 five varieties of Mariposa lilies, and the florists have in- 

 creased these by many variations. 



Of the shrubs I have found the varieties of ceanothus 

 (wild lilac) and trichostema (blue curls) very delightful 

 under cultivation, and no cultivated shrub is more useful 

 than Dendromecon rigidum, which is a bush — or shrub- 

 poppy of lovely yellow shades. Yerba santa (Eriodictyon 

 glutinosum) is a favorite, and the wild cherry (Primus 

 ilicifolia) is a glossy-leaved shrub that equals the English 

 holly in its beauty. Gilias we have in plenty — an extensive 

 assortment. The collinsias, too, are numerous, and none 

 more beautiful that Collinsia bicolor, which, as it grows in 

 the shade of trees on some grassy slope, uplifts one's soul 

 to heaven, so pure and lovely does it seem in its own aspir- 

 ations. A very useful cut flower is secured from our Layia 

 elegans, known to some as "tidy-tips." Its fragrance is 

 pleasant and none of the compositae are more attractive or 

 more easily propagated. 



"To me, the meanest flower that blows can give 

 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." 



And as I rode through a tangle of wildwood roses the other 

 day near Santa Barbara, I could not but think that even in 

 our gardening — most simple and pure of pleasures — we 



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