A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



mal garden, the walks outlined by rough blocks of 

 hard-pan of the locality, set on edge, in color pre- 

 cisely right for the position. Here too I saw a 

 most beautiful use of the geranium, tall bushes of 

 the superb variety of scarlet. General Grant, in 

 vivid bloom, against the brown-shingled wall of a 

 house, with that shining-leaved shrub, one of the 

 glories in California in shrubs, coprosma, set in 

 between the geraniimis. 



On, then, to Mrs. D.'s twelve acres, boasting a 

 greater variety in vegetation than is often seen 

 together, various kinds of figs, of almonds, the 

 young green fruit and nuts already formed upon 

 the twigs, an Australian flame-tree, loquats, 

 cumquats, a fine orange grove in which a tractor 

 was already turning under tall rye as fertihzer. 

 Every vegetable is grown here; five thousand yoimg 

 plants of the Chinese sacred lily, alfalfa, montbre- 

 tias, from among which a Japanese gardener was 

 hoeing out seedlings of castor-beans grown there 

 last year and determined to grow again. Fine 

 poultry and Jersey cattle completed this "Twelve 

 Acres and Liberty." From this small ranch spread 

 out in every direction a delicious scene in those 

 gray-greens of California mountains, mesas, val- 

 leys, touched in places with the different yellow- 



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