A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



group of the fernlike tree, Lyonoihamnus florihunda, 

 a native of the Santa Barbara Islands. 



We have now come around the house to the 

 southwest side, following a narrow curving walk, 

 and find here more massed planting, partly to 

 screen out the service region, partly as a back- 

 ground for the house itself. Here stand the fern- 

 leaved trees just mentioned, here are well-grown 

 groups of Acacia latifolia, and here, toward the 

 street again, are spreading the Cactus opuntia, 

 thornless and thorny, with the bright orange- 

 blooming Dimorphotheca aurantiaca all over the 

 ground against and beneath the cactus-green. 

 Wherever such masses of flowers occur, the fore- 

 ground is apt to be cut by a yucca or an agave of 

 different varieties, or by some other plant, bold 

 and distinct in character, such as Echium simplex, 

 a honey plant of the Azores. This virile use of 

 such plants is one of the many characteristics of 

 the small place under discussion. There is no 

 lawn nor hedge nor fence in the front of this gar- 

 den, but along the front a border three to six feet 

 wide is composed of four sorts of mesembryanthe- 

 mum, variable as to textm*e and color and well 

 placed for effect, which is very brilliant from May 

 to October. The broad parking space outside of 



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