EVERGREEN FLOWERING SHRUGS 
THE ORCHID ROCKROSE 
Pink Breath of Heaven 
Diosma pulchrum. 4 ft. 20°. In many California gar¬ 
dens the White Breath of Heaven, with its sweet-scented 
heath-like foliage and its innumerable starry little flow¬ 
ers is a great favorite, but we think that this newly intro¬ 
duced relative from South Africa will be even more popu¬ 
lar. It grows to about 4 feet, with a dwarf compact bushy 
habit, and in late spring and summer is covered for weeks 
with thousands of little bright pink flowers. Dry soil, full 
sun. Balled or 5-gal. containers, 1-1V2 ft-, $1.75; gal. con¬ 
tainers, 60c. 
Diosma alba. "Breath of Heaven." (Africa). 6 ft. 20°. 
A bushy, compact little plant, bursting in spring into a 
myriad of minute, white, star-like blooms. If the foliage 
is rubbed a most entrancing aromatic fragrance is re¬ 
leased. The name "Breath of Heaven" is no passing 
fancy but a translation of its Greek name, Diosma. Sun. 
Balled, H/ 2-2 ft., $1.50; gal. containers, 50c. 
The Fragrant Foliaged Breath of Heaven 
Heathers 
Most of the Heathers bloom in the winter 
when flowers are scarce. E. mediterranea and 
E. stricta are hardy anywhere and are not 
particular as to soil or climate, but the others, 
while thriving in the coastal regions in Cali¬ 
fornia, must have good drainage. 
Erica blanda. 3 ft. 18°. Low and spreading, 
its rosy-red, tubular flowers clustered over the 
plant during the entire year. Balled, 1-1 1/2 ft., 
$1.25. 
E. charlesiana. 4 ft. 18°. Slender, upright 
branches of blue-gray foliage, the long, slen¬ 
der, pale-pink flower tubes, flecked with black 
stamens, hanging daintily along the branches. 
Balled, 2-3 ft., $1.50. 
E. lusitanica. "Spanish Heather." 18°. So 
covered with snowy-white flowers in late win¬ 
ter that it looks like a young snowdrift. Balled, 
11/2-2 ft., $1.25. 
E. mediterranea. "Mediterranean Heather." 
4 ft. 10°. Compact and bushy, with stiff stems 
and purplish pink flowers from March to June. 
Hardy under all conditions. Balled, l'/2-2 ft., 
$1.50. 
E. persoluta rosea. 4 ft. 18°. Flowers simi¬ 
lar to E. melanthera but more brilliant in color, 
a vivid hue of deep rose-pink. Blooms from 
February to April. Balled, 1 1 / 2-2 ft., $1.50. 
E. President Felix Faure. 3 ft. 18°. Bears 
thick clusters of large, tubular rose-red flowers 
which resemble fire crackers in shape and 
color. Balled, 12-15 inches, $1.25. 
It Is Not Scotch 
Erica melanthera. 6 ft. 18°. This is the best 
known and most popular of all the Heathers 
in California, and certainly it is one of the 
most beautiful of winter flowering shrubs. This 
is the improved E. melanthera with much deep¬ 
er rose-colored flowers than the ordinary type. 
From November to March the plants are a 
solid mass of small rosy-lavender flowers. It 
is sometimes called "Scotch Heather" but it 
never saw Scotland, being a native of South 
Africa, and is much showier and brighter than 
the real article. Full sunshine and not too 
much moisture. Balled, 3-4 ft., $2.00; 2-3 ft., 
$1.75; H/ 2-2 ft., $1.50. 
Eranthemum 
Eranthemum nervosum. 4 ft. 24°. A soft- 
wooded luxuriant looking plant from tropical 
India, bearing many large clusters of bright 
blue flowers throughout the winter and spring. 
Shade or part shade. Plenty of moisture. Gal. 
containers, 60c. 
Mexican Orange 
Cboisya ternata. "Mexican Orange." (Mex¬ 
ico.) 5 ft. 18°. A dense, globular shrub, with 
bright, glossy green foliage, profusely covered 
in spring with snowy-white, sweetly scented 
blooms, resembling orange blossoms. Hardy 
anywhere in Southern California, but must 
have good drainage. Sun or part shade. Balled, 
2-21/2 ft., $2.50; H/ 2-2 ft., $1.75; gal. cont., 50c. 
The Fragrant Daphne 
Daphne odora. 4 ft. 10°. The small flower- 
heads of creamy white, borne profusely in 
winter, possess a most intense and delicious 
fragrance. The splendid plant with its shiny 
green foliage does best in partial shade with 
plenty of moisture but good drainage. Balled, 
H/2-2 ft., $3.00; 15-18 inches, $2.00; 6-inch pots, 
8-12 inches, $1.25. 
Daphne odora variegata. Leaves margined 
with gold, the flowers are pink. Same sizes 
and prices as above. See illustration at top 
of preceding page. 
The Tropical Dombeya 
Dombeya Wallichi. 8-15 ft. 25°. From far-off 
Madagascar comes this beautiful flowering 
plant with great 8-inch heart-shaped leaves 
forming a heavy canopy of foliage under which 
hang on pendulous thread-like stems great 
clusters of deep coral-pink flowers. Splendid 
for a tropical effect in protected patios or any¬ 
where along the coast in Southern California. 
5-gal. containers, 3-4 ft., $1.75; gal. containers, 
2-3 ft., 50c. 
Dombeya calantha, (Central Africa). 
■ 12 ft. 25°. Big foliage like the variety 
above, but the big rosy flower heads are 
borne all along the branches and stems 
throughout the winter, and it is possibly 
the showiest Dombeya when in bloom. 
5-gal. containers, 2-3 ft., $1.75; gal. con¬ 
tainers, 50c. 
Silverberry 
Elaeagnus fruitlandi. 8 ft. 10°. A splen¬ 
did large spreading shrub with 4-inch 
leaves and stems covered with frosty 
shiny scales, and even the great silvery- 
bronze berries look as though they had 
been gilded. Thrives anywhere, even in 
the ocean spray. Gal. containers, 50c. 
E. pungens variegata. 10°. Like the 
above but leaves are margined with 
cream. Gal. containers, l-H /2 ft., 50c. 
Cuphea 
Cuphea micropetala. 2 ft. 20°. A fast 
growing Mexican herb which makes a 
thick clump of erect branches in a few 
weeks. Each branch is topped with a 
raceme of red and yellow flowers the year 
around. Gal. containers, 50c. 
Silver Bush 
Convolvulus cneorum. (Southern Europe.) 3 
ft. 18°. We think that this is one of the finest 
little plants that we have ever had the pleas¬ 
ure of growing. We like it because it gets 2 
or 3 feet high and stops, making a beautiful 
little rounded bush with silky silvery-grey foli¬ 
age and producing almost the year around 
many satiny white trumpet-shaped flowers 2 
inches across. Likes plenty of sunshine, does 
not mind dry soil, and will grow anywhere 
from seacoast to desert. 5-gal. containers, 
$1.75; gal. containers, 60c. 
Canary Morning Glory 
Convolvulus floridus. (Canary Islands). 5 
ft. 18°. This is another favorite of ours, but 
quite new in California, and like most plants 
from the Canary Islands, it thrives wonder¬ 
fully well here. Makes a rather compact plant, 
with thin narrow leaves, which starts to cover 
itself in March with little white flowers, a lit¬ 
tle more than an inch across, and never stops 
producing them until early winter, looking 
most of the time like a garden edition of the 
Milky Way. Any soil will do, and the hotter 
the weather the better this plant likes it. 5-gal. 
containers, $1.75; gal. containers, 60c. 
A Dwarf Beauty 
Cneorum tricoccon. 2 ft. 10°. Makes a beau¬ 
tiful rounded little clump of foliage, dotted in 
late summer and fall with big, bright red ber¬ 
ries. Hardy anywhere. Sun or shade. Gal. 
containers, 60c. 
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