Santa Barbara too is awake to the importance of planting 
"Wild Flowers. In fact, we wish we had space to pass on all of 
the suggestions corning from the Pacific Zone, which shows such 
a healthy growth of public opinion against the destruction of 
their marvellous Wild Flowers and Shrubs. "We are all vitally 
interested in this Zone,, as it is the recreative, health-giving, joy- 
giving spot of our country, to which we all sooner or later turn. 
So in thinking of our flowers in our own special localities, we 
might always have California in our minds, for her beautiful 
growth is much advertised and therefore will be much molested 
until the public learns that to enjoy one need not destroy. 
Fanny Day Farwell, Chairman. 
Wild Flowers of the Angeles National Forest, California. 
Like a colossal arm holding within its hollow the fertile plains 
and valleys that form the back country of Los Angeles, the 
majestic line of the San Gabriel-San Bernardino mountain range 
extends for a hundred miles, shutting off the desert and its 
parching influences from the coast lands. Virtually all this 
region of fine, breezy sun-drenched stretches of intermittent- 
woodland and snug-fitting chaparral, whose sky-line averages 
about 6,000 feet above the sea and at its maximum is lifted up to 
over 11,000, is a National Forest Reserve — the Angeles — em- 
bracing an area of nearly a million and a half acres. A large 
part of this is traversable only by trails, although in some 
sections — notably in the San Bernardinos — automobile roads 
have existed for some years and elsewhere others are planned. 
Owing to the unspoiled wildness of much of the forest, native 
flowers flourish luxuriantly, not only on the treeless areas and in 
the damp natural meadows known as cienagas, but in the forested 
sections as well; for it is characteristic of Southern California 
forests, as of those of the Sierra Nevada, that undergrowth is 
scanty. The trees, except in moist canon bottoms, are usually 
set at liberal distances apart; the woodland is permeated with 
light; and the forest floor is warm and bright with sunshine. 
Such situations are the habitat of some of the choicest flowers, 
as the delicate "Lantern of the Fairies" and other calochorti, an 
exquisite Beard-tongue (Penstemon labrosus) , Lupines of 
several species, the Gentian's pallid cousin, Frasera neglecta, 
the quaint Pedicularis and the ever exciting Snow-plant. 
From February (or even earlier, if rains and sun favor), 
when Brodiaeas, Peonies, Dcntarias, Calandrinias, Suncups, 
Fritallarias, Lupines, fringed Gilias and many another are to be 
expected in warm pockets of the foothills, until September when 
you will find the topmost heights of Mount San Gorgonio 
flowery with such rarities as Bryanthus, RaillardeUa, the pygmy 
Hidsea and Alpine Buttercups beside the lingering snow, there 
is a rising tide of wild bloom that makes every day a red-letter 
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