FRUIT TREES AND HAWTHORNS JOIN THE FLOWERY PAGEANT 
With literally thousands of spring-flowering bulbs brightly bestrewing the ground,'and the rose, 
cream, and dawn-pink of fruit flower overhead, “Alanoke” in spring takes on a veritable fairy-land 
aspect; at the left a California Big-tree stands like some dark-clad gnome watching a gay procession 
WHERE FORMALITY AND INFORMALITY DOVETAIL 
A retaining wall of highly colored native rock from the neighboring Berkeley Hills holds the garden in and the land¬ 
scape out, separating demureness from disorder, as it were. After spring has passed, summer's story is carried on 
by Gladiolus, Snapdragons, Dianthus, Phlox, and other standbys of a garden planned for a succession of bloom 
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