ing over the arbor. What a place for Nasturtiums, with a 
Pomegranate bush nearby. 
To the south, seen from the living-room, I would form my 
picture with feathery masses of Acacia trees and bushes on the 
left-hand side leaving the sloping ground in the center for the 
wild-flowers to grow in the grass, not forgetting to sow some 
of Payne's marvelous wild-flower seed broadcast every year. I 
would use the wild Roses and single "Wichuraiana types in masses 
on the right-hand side to gradually connect this wild garden 
with the Rose garden. A Rose Garden in California! It is the 
apex of the rosarian 's dream ! Thirty years ago I saw a Beauty 
of Glazenivood Rose tossing its golden masses around the top of 
a tall cedar tree in Montecito. It made such an impression on 
my childish mind that in this dream garden I must have a group 
of scraggy Cedars with the draped apricot-yellow rose which is 
now listed as Gold of Ophir. Cherokee Roses, too, we must have 
and William Allen Richardson and Gardenia, Dr. Van Fleet and 
Cecile Brunner clambering over the little pergola-porch on the 
sunset side of the cottage. As for the bush Roses themselves, 
some day we hope to have a true California gardener tell us just 
which to plant, but meanwhile let's be sure to start with Sunburst, 
Sunset, Lady Hillingdon, Los Angeles, Mrs. Aaron Ward and 
3Irs. S. K. Bindge (the finest yellow rose that I have ever seen). 
Under the sun-set pergola I want white Oleander bushes 
(Nerium) in tubs, also some Crape Myrtles (Lagerstroemia) and 
one mauve flowered vine {Allamanda purpurea) clambering 
above a mass of Plumbago capcnsis and Heliotrope. 
I never picture the beloved old-fashioned New England 
flowers that we all know so well in this California garden. 
It is the precious semi-tropical flowers and the tender plants from 
England and the Riviera that I long to have about me there. 
California, to me, is a vision of mountains and foot-hills, blue 
skies and sunshine, dense shadows of Live-Oak and long shadows 
of Eucalyptus, the flash of brilliant semi-tropical vines, the scent 
of Jasmine and Tea Roses and the glint of the Pacific in the 
sunset. 
Epilogue But, says the practical gardener, if you were going out to 
Santa Barbara to start your garden in a bare lot ivhere would 
you get all this glorious flora you speak of so glibly? Indeed, we 
have thought of that! They are listed in Theodore Payne's 
marvelous catalog and his address is 345 South Main Street, 
Los Angeles, and besides in Santa Barbara there is Dr. Doremus, 
the President of the Garden Club who can tell you exactly ivhat 
will thrive and ivhat will not, and when and how to plant it. So 
you see, it is a practical Dream Garden. 
A. M. H. AND A. G. H. 
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