Wood and Garden 2 . 50 
English Gardens (Jekyll & Elgood) I5- 00 
The above are published by Longmans, Green & Co. , New York. 
Flower Decoration in the House, 6/- 
Liliesfor English Gardens, 8/6 
Roses for English Gardens (Gertrude and Mawley Jekyll) 12/6. 
The above are published in England and may be imported 
through booksellers. The prices given are the former EngHsh prices 
which would probably have to be doubled to arrive at the cost here. 
Two ver>' interesting publications dealing with California flowers 
are as follows: Professor Wickson's "California Garden Flowers," 
pubUshed by the Pacific Rural Press, San Francisco; and a pamphlet 
to be had from the Department of Horticulture, University of CaH- 
fomia (Berkeley), entitled "Annotated List of the Wild Flowers of Cali- 
fornia" by Professor P. B. Kennedy. 
Departments 
It has been a bitter fact to the "Mis" of the ^Miscellany that the 
printers' strike has delayed most of the Seed Catalogues. The cold 
winter evenings have not been enlivened by the great game of 
"3 pkts. of No. 2773 ©.IS = .45." Indeed there has been little 
of this exquisite pleasure to help you through an attack of the flu. 
However, Farquhar's Catalogue appeared this morning just as we are 
going to press and the others are on their way. Meanwhile it has 
given us an opportunity to become better acquainted with some new 
friends, as there seems to have been no printers' strike in England 
or California. 
We have learnt that most of our pansy seed is grown in Oregon, 
where the climate is similar to England;. and that the seed of the 
marvelous new Petunias, all ruffled and yellow throated and true to 
color, are grown for the w^holesale trade in California. The dry long 
summers of Lower California are ideal for thorough ripening of flower 
seed, which is getting to be a great industr}'' there. 
The EngUsh Catalogues are safe hunting grounds for us if we do 
not let ourselves be carried away by the pictures of Godetia, Clarkia, 
Calceolarias and Schizanthus which thrive near the Gulf Stream 
but which cannot be expected to flourish here in the average garden. 
Even the Nemesias, which do moderately well for us if started in a 
hot bed, pricked off into flats and set out in June, bloom for such a 
short time under our broiling sun that they are hardly worth the 
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