SPANISH GARDENS 



the cement sidewalk is filled with the orange- 

 colored gazania, which likewise is in bloom from 

 April to October. These masses of color are like 

 a miniature copy of the wild-flower fields of Coro- 

 nado when it was only a rabbit-and-quail park 

 and there was plenty of rain. 



Also, one of the charms of this place lies in 

 the restrained use of creepers against the house. 

 Fancy what this restraint means in such a climate. 

 The temptation there is, I observe, to allow the 

 vines of quick growth to suffocate the house. Its 

 outlines gasp for breath. All sense of form is lost, 

 and the unrestrained ficus and bignonia come in 

 for a share of the blame. In the same manner 

 precisely, and for the same reason, the scarlet 

 geranium is condemned by the visitor to southern 

 California. It should not be; it is only badly, very 

 badly used there by the mass of the people. Now 

 and again one sees it superb, well-grown, well- 

 groomed, perfectly placed. Time will surely bring 

 to all of southern California, as it has to much of 

 it already, an understanding of the need for struc- 

 tural green perhaps more easily and more quickly 

 supplied there than in any other part of the coun- 

 try. The perfect example in this, as in many 

 other things, is there in the San Diego Exposition! 



