VALENTINE—"‘Has a Luminous Quatity .. .” 
Springtime. H. Poly. Patent 268. Low to 1% feet, bushy. Produces in 
clusters, semi-double, cupped flowers, described ‘‘wild-rose-pink, with white 
centers.’ At its best in the warmer districts. 
We are chagrined to have only a handful for 1952. 155 
Snowbank. Floribunda. Patent 279. This writer’s admiration for Snow- 
bank began some years ago in the display garden at Paul Howard’s fine nursery, 
Sawtelle. Alas, this interesting test plot is not always kept to the perfection it 
deserves, but Snowbank from early spring to fall managed to put on a fine show, 
when others of its type needed ‘‘face-lifting’’ and a good ‘freshening up.’’ Pro- 
duces in big masses of 2” semi-double blooms, just touched with delicate shell- 
pink; very bushy, spreading, medium height. Mighty good! 
3 for 3.85 each 1.50 
ed 
“How deeply with beauty is beauty overlaid! The ground covered with crystals, the 
crystals with mosses and lichens and low-spreading grasses and flowers .. . these with 
larger plants, leaf over leaf, with every changing color and form, the broad palm of the firs 
outspread over these, the azure dome over all like a bellflower, and star above star. 
—Joun Muir 
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