SUMMER Rx 
PINK PARASOL 
What visions of a Southern summer 
might the allusion to ''Pink Mimosa'’ con- 
jure up? Welcome respite from the sun's 
heat beneath the lacy canopy of ferny 
foliage; the faint fragrance of the myriad 
bundles of pink silken threads which frost 
the tree in mid-summer; the graceful si!- 
houette of the flat horizontally-spreading 
head, with its almost “oriental'’ aspect? 
Whatever charm and beauty this storied 
"Pink Mimosa’ brings the South can be 
bestowed on your garden, too, in the form 
of Albizzia Julibrissin, which is the botan- 
ical name of this Leguminous tree. Native 
to Asia from Persia to Japan, and hardiest 
of the Albizzias, Julibrissin is happily at 
home in climates ranging from the Atlantic 
seaboard to the Pacific, from the humid 
South north to Washington, a character- 
istic of tolerance which well adapts it to 
the capricious climate of Southern Cali- . 
fornia. 
It is a light airy tree of rapid growth, 
not densely foliated but like a parasol 
filtering the sun's rays with a single layer 
of bipinnate leaves, surmounted through 
the summer by the showy pink stamenous 
flowers, which may enhance your garden. 
too! $4.50 in five gallon cans. 
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from front page) 
It is remarkably easy to grow in sun or 
half-shade, where it enjoys but does not 
demand more than average food and 
drink. For the tropical effect as a speci- 
men or simply as a fast and effective filler 
at minimum expense we commend to your 
attention Podachaenium eminens. Large 
plants in four-gallon containers, $4. M.E. 
WESTWARD HO! 
(Continued from front page) 
low pea-like flowers on bushes—Spartium 
junceum, the long-blooming Spanish broom 
naturalized along the unwatered roadside. 
From about Saltair to Carmelina on both 
sides in parkings stand a few good old 
trees of Acacia decurrens, with the last 
remnants of spring bloom among the dark 
ferny foliage. On the left at 12416 Sunset 
is a splendid example of Eucalyptus leu- 
coxylon, with white and beige bark, and 
in season pink or white flowers. A little 
farther, on same side, are three fragile- 
looking white-barked lemon gums—E. citri- 
odora. 
Then Bristol Circle which one can spot 
several blocks before he gets there by its 
silhouetted canopy of Eucalyptus coryno- 
calyx. Outstanding among the other lower 
growing trees around this Circle are, on 
the left, a short row of especially hand- 
some carobs (Ceretonia siliqua), known in 
the Bible as St. John's bread; then Euca- 
lyptus rostrata with their long strings of 
pendulous branches (usually mistaken for 
the larger-growing Eucalyptus viminalis), 
and on the west side of Circle some 
spreading Atlas cedars, Cedrus atlanticas 
which are native to North Africa. 
Rounding the bend to the right, one 
encounters good masses of pine — the 
twisted gray-green ‘of Pinus halapensis, 
(from the Mediterranean coasts) and the 
tall straight pyramids of the Canary Island 
Pine (P. canariensis). 
Just before Mandeville Canyon road 
on the right side, a hillside of shrubby, na- 
tive California Walnut, elderberry (Sam- 
bucus), and Toyons (Photinia arbutifolia) 
is well-studded with Eucalypti; mostly ros- 
trata and Lehmanni, the latter a handsome 
round-headed gum of small stature, round- 
ish red-to-green leaves and_ interesting 
open conformation. 
Rounding to the left in the bottom of 
the canyon one comes next to a most ar- 
resting screen-planting on the right of 
Acacia longifolia (latifolia to. the trade); 
blue Plumbago capensis, dense, handsome 
and self-sufficient at all times of the year; 
and some fine native Sycamores, so much 
a part of California lowlands. P.E.C. 
(Westward, ever westward, through the 
Riviera and the Palisades next month.) 
