PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Kmg continued dry spell when once 
they become established; they are find- 
ing an ever increasing field of useful- 
ness. E. ficifolia is really handsome in 
flower but most of the other sorts are 
mainly serviceable for their irregular, 
towering and loose masses of foliage 
disposed on a. scant branch system. In 
rapidity of growth they are remarkable. 
In five or six years a tree will develop 
to a trunk diameter of 12 to 14 inches 
and a height of 40 to 60 or even more. 
Of other trees the Texas umbrella 
(Melia Azederach) is not rare nor well 
liked, the California Sycamore is a 
handsome tree in the low valleys where 
they grow naturally ; the Coral tree 
(Erythrina) becomes a real tree; 
Erachycheton diversifolia is used as 
a street tree, also Camphora officinalis, 
but the latter grow at so uneven a rate 
their effect is not pleasing a few years 
after planting. Quercus ruber is an 
excellent tree for park planting and 
except for its slow growth the native 
California live oak is par excellence a 
handsome tree. 
Schinus mollis, the pepper tree, is 
very abundant, and altogether good, 
tough, handsome and an all-round de- 
sirable tree. It will stand drought well ; 
it also is subject to scale, and in a 
citrus fruit country that is a serious 
matter. 
Among hedge plants Pittosporum 
amdulatum is fine. Eugenia myrtifolia, 
Ligustrum Japonicum, Cupressus mac- 
Tocarpa and Laurus tinus are good. 
Others used are Duranta Plumieri, 
Euonymus Japonicus, Crataegus pyra- 
cantha and Myrtus communis. 
Ferns are planted in dells or where 
water is abundant. The lower growing 
■sorts, other thah filmies, may easily be 
cultivated, but again the tendency is 
toward sorts usually grown indoors in 
the north, such as the Nephrolepis 
Bostoniensis, Adiantum cuneatum. 
Nidus avis, Pteris tremula, etc., with 
the larger sorts used in choicer effects. 
Alsophila australis, Cyatheas and 
Crytomiums (I saw no Dicksonias). 
As for shrubs preface should be made 
in explaining that ordinary zonale ger- 
aniums are used as hedges, or if allowed 
to grow alongside a dwelling they will 
mount up to the second story window. 
Since watering must be done each 
week it’s as easy to rear ivy geran- 
iums as grass, and the transposition 
is frequently evident. 
Oleanders, crape myrtles and Poin- 
settia pulcherrima are quite common, 
the Poinsettia being a very attractive 
thing to the winter tourists since it 
blooms when the main travel is on. Al- 
most every southern California mid- 
winter visitor remembers the sight of 
the whole country side being aflame 
with red poppies or dazzling in its 
palette covered with the vivid California 
poppy (Eschscholzia)., 
A light, rarified, clear atmosphere, 
equable climatic conditions and high 
color are the three strongest points of 
that section. Add to that the richness 
of soil, the great scale upon which com- 
mercial enterprises are conducted, the 
newness of the irrigating idea and there 
is mystery, charm, fascination and a 
touch of foreignness given to the local- 
ity. It becomes necessary to reflect that 
one is not on the Riviera but still in 
Uncle Sam’s domain even though an 
Italian colony over there cultivate 5,000 
acres of grapes and produce a wine 
giving fame to the state; that a thousand 
acres passed a mile away are all planted 
to beans by Japanese or Chinese culti- 
vators, that several million barrels of 
oil are shipped from that group of wells 
up the valley; that so and so many 
thousand cars of oranges were shipped 
from a particular locality last year, and 
so on and so on. Fancy all this to hap- 
pen within a comparatively moderate 
circumference; that the same locality 
has an excellent harbor, that to all its 
fertility and wealth and color there 
seems to be an endless number of novel 
surprises, such as snowballing on Mount 
Lowe and a few hours later bathing in 
the surf of the Pacific — these are some 
of the fascinations that invite the work- 
er to labor under pleasing conditions. 
They are comfortably situated to 
tarry and end their days under the 
most agreeable surroundings, or the 
wealthy to indulge their tastes, also 
their extravagances under a quintes- 
cence of agreeably inviting surroundings 
and find an almost limitless number of 
fellow participants in so doing. 
But to return to shrubs : Let us 
enumerate the commoner plants culti- 
vated indoors in the north — Muehlen- 
beckia platyclada, Pittosporum tobira. 
Eugenioides and crassifolium, Libonia 
floribunda, Laurus nobilis. Arbutus 
unedo Grevillea Thelemanniana, Co- 
prosina Braueriana, Fuchsia Boliviana, 
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Genista Can- 
ariensis, Streptosolen Jamesoni, Wig- 
andi urens, Phormium tenax, .musa 
ensete and cavendishi, Fatsia Japonica, 
Caesalpinia Mexicana, Duranta Plu- 
mieri, Ficus nitida Hakea elliptica, 
Jacarandam immosaefolia. Russelia 
floribunda, metrosideros robusta, Lan- 
tana Craigii, Lippia citriodora, Ces- 
trum aurantiacum and such others as 
are used as tender annuals like Eu- 
phorbia heterophylla and Splendens, 
Senecio cineraria, Solanum atropur- 
pureum and capsicastrum, Hetioli- 
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opium Mexicanum, Cuphaea platy- 
centra. Calceolarias, Browallia, etc. 
In speaking of southern California I 
cannot forego mention of Dr. Frances- 
chi, the indefatigable botanical worker 
whose tireless efforts in the field of 
introducing the wealth of the floral 
world to Southern California, has 
enriched almost every garden in the 
vicinity. The thought occurs that he 
would be a fit recipient of Andrew Car- 
negie’s fostering endowment policy. 
I recall with pleasure my desire sev- 
eral years ago to meet the man with 
whom I previously corresponded and 
who seemed to have the happy combina- 
tion of botanical knowledge with horti- 
cultural insight. A journey to Santa 
Barbara was undertaken, a visit to the 
town botanical garden made, a call at 
the town office to learn that he had es- 
tablished a residence and nursery up on 
the mountain overlooking the bay, city 
and distant islands. I called him by tele- 
phone stating that I would arrive as 
soon as a carriage could bring me there. 
En route the old Santa Barbara mission 
was passed and after several miles up 
the mountain we reached his estate. I 
enjoyed a pleasant visit with his family, 
who dispensed the typical Italian cor- 
diality and then we drove over to Car- 
penteria and Montecito, among the fine 
old private estates where the true rich- 
ness of southern Californian flora 
natural and exotic is on e-xhibition. 
The history of the introduction of 
Lippia repens was detailed and com- 
mon as is this excellent ground cover 
few of the Californians realize to 
whom they are indebted for it. 
It was not my good fortune to be 
able to again visit that amiable plants- 
man when in that section a week ago, 
and I was pained to hear that the con- 
trol of the Southern Acclimatization 
Company had passed from his control 
and now his business operations are 
conducted under the name of the Mon- 
tarioso nursery with Miss E. F. Fran- 
ceschi, his daughter, as proprietress. 
It seems odd that so many American 
botanists who devote a life-time of serv- 
ice cannot be meted out even a dis- 
tantly just reward for their services 
because they have possibly a business 
aptitude out of proportion to their scien- 
tific learning. So it was with the Mich- 
eauxs, with Nnttall and Howell. These 
words are written without the knowl- 
edge of Dr.. Franceschi, at the solicita- 
tion of no one and only in the hope that 
they may tend to enlist a better even 
though belated appreciation of the serv- 
ices of one to whom honor is due and 
whose profound modesty precludes his 
being discovered without special 
search. 
