other quarters. Or it may be easily induced to possess itself of a 
worthless or unsightly tree and soon convert it into a busy arbor for 
birds. In furnishing this short list of mostly hardy plants worthy 
of cultivation we have confined ourselves to our own experience. 
We have probably omitted mention of many promising subjects 
that will come to mind. But no harm is done by the omission. The 
field is open to the Club and may be trusted to offer new pleasure 
to its members. Dr. Bolling W. Barton 
TEXAS ZONE 
Mrs. George Sealy, Chairman 
Galveston, Texas 
Those interested in the Wild Flowers of Texas will find Bulletin 
No. 2065 of The University of Texas, under the title of "The Seed 
Plants, Ferns, and Fern Allies of the Austin Region," by Mary 
Sophie Young, Ph. D., both interesting and instructive. 
Professor Tharp of the Department of Botany of the University 
of Texas states in a recent letter that the Southern Smilax and 
Christmas Holly are growing scarcer and scarcer around the cities 
by being mutilated in a vandalistic manner. Of course, in the great 
forests and river bottoms of eastern Texas there are millions of 
acres covered by Red Bud, Black Haw, Dogwood, Old Man's Beard, 
Hawthorne and other beautiful flowering trees in such profusion 
one may take all one might want without it being noticeable. 
I hope to have slides of the Blue Bonnet, which covers acres in 
one great patch of color, and of the very pretty Texas Blue Bell 
of the (jentian family {Eastonia russelianum) with its stiff stem with 
gentian blue flowers as large as tulips. About a half dozen varieties 
of Larkspur are known in the state. 
(Mrs. George) Magnolia Sealy, Chairman 
PACIFIC ZONE 
Anna Head, Chairman 
2510 Buena Vista, Berkeley, California 
Though one travels through valleys blue with Lupins and Nemo- 
philae, or along sand dunes and mountains slopes golden and purple 
with Poppies or Iris, we old Californians sadly realize that these 
floods of color are really ebbing tides, going, going — oh, so fast! 
The carpet of thousands of colors in the great central valley has 
given way to grain and rice fields and the intensive fruit culture of 
the Japanese. Even our sunny hillsides are cropped bare by sheep 
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