14 THE Orcurt SEED AND PLANT CoMPANY, 
CALIFORNIA YELLOW BELLS. 
It seems strange that one of the loveliest of California an- 
nuals should have escaped attention among lovers of flowers for 
so long. And yet the Yellow Bells of California, as it is called, 
span to occasionally two feet high. Each of its numerous 
branches is rail loaded with proudly bell-shaped pendulous 
flower alf long, and of a delicate cream color. The 
dower x itmnoet évertacting: the persistent corolla drying and 
retaining its shape until the seed has ripened. “The general 
effect of a branch is suggestive of.a dong spike of the lily of, the 
valley,” says one writer regarding it 
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from Lake County to San Diego, and southward in Lower Cal- 
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phila and whitlavia of our gwdens—all natives of on Golden 
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