IT’S TIME FOR 
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the best, both with regard to quality of 
plant and varieties. If you are a beginner 
with Camellias or Azaleas, be sure to ask 
your salesman for planting instructions 
when making your purchase. Azaleas range 
from $1.85 in five-inch pots up to $15 in 
tubs. All are perfect specimens, irrespec- 
tive of size, carrying plenty of buds. 
CAMELLIAS start at $2 in gallon cans. 
Among the many varieties available now 
in tive-gallon cans are these heavily-bud- 
ded, vigorous specimens: BLOOD OF 
CHINA, large semi-double in deep salmon 
red, $8.50; JULIA DRAYTON, large scar- 
let rose form, $8.50; HIGH HAT, very 
early pink peony form, $9; LADY CLARE, 
bushy semi-double, deep pink, $7; HOW- 
ARD ASPER, delicate pink with crepe- 
paper-like petals, $10; DAIKAGURA, re- 
liable, early performer, variegated peony, 
$8.50; VILLE DE NANTES, semi-double, 
deep red blotched with white, $10; FIN- 
LANDIA, semi-double with large white 
fluted petals, $8.50; FIMBRIATA, white 
formal double with delicately fringed edge, 
$12.50: DAIKAGURA WHITE, sensational 
offspring of the original variegated Daika- 
gura, $16. 
Following are a few plants which have 
not been freely available for some time, 
and worthy of your consideration: TABER- 
NAEMONTANA is an attractive, tender 
plant for part shade with bold evergreen 
foliage and fragrant white flowers. The 
variety we offer is T. coronaria; known 
also as Grape Jasmine or Nero's Crown, 
which grows to about six or seven feet. 
Five-gallon cans, $4.50. Also for shade or 
filtered sun is LIGULARIA KAEMPFERI 
(Leopard Plant), a dense mass of round, 
green leaves resembling water lily pads 
blotched yellow, and surmounted by 19- 
inch spikes of yellow flowers—a good addi- 
tion to most any tropical planting. Five- 
gallon cans, $4. BAUHINIA GALPINII is 
certainly one of the better things in shrub- 
land, with red flowers from spring to late 
fall, and distinctive two-lobed leaves. A 
specimen may be seen in bloom at the 
Nursery now. Five-gallon cans, $5. K.B. 
Rhyme in Season 
To the many nice people 
From far and from near 
Who graced our gardens 
Throughout the past year; 
To the folks who have helped 
When the going was rough 
While our street was demolished, 
We can't say enough. 
So rather than sending 
Clichés down your way 
We will all just say ‘Thank you" 
This Thanksgiving Day. 
iH ug I, Cvans 
In order to have beautiful plants in 
your garden, it is imperative that the 
ground where your plants are to grow be 
properly prepared; any time and money 
Carine 
spent in preparation of the soil wil! be - 
repaid to you many times over by the 
health and beauty of your plants and your 
own pleasure and delight. 
The longer | live and observe gardens 
in Southern California, the more | am im- 
pressed with the importance of a good 
mulch all over the garden. Once the plants 
are in the ground, the less cultivation the 
better, except for the seasonal digging of 
borders where perennials, annuals and 
bulbs are to grow, and a good mulch of 
manure, peat moss, leaf-mold or leaves 
keeps the roots of the plants cool ana 
moist, saves water and conserves moisture. | 
No matter how much some plants revel in 
hot sunshine, they still like to have their 
feet cool. Continual disturbance of the soil 
around growing plants has the eftect of 
injuring the feeding roots, and, without a 
mulch, incessant light sprinkling brings the 
roots close to the surface where they are 
injured by the action of the sun. 
| know | have said all these things be- 
fore, but they cannot be stressed too 
much. If genius consists in an infinite ca- 
pacity for taking pains, genius is useful, 
indeed indispensable, in gardening. And 
when your plants are happy you are happy, 
too. 
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