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Ay, There’s the Shrub: New “Temple Fire” Bougainvillea 
With the introduction of our new BUSH BOUGAINVILLEA we again hail this plant from 
the jungles of South America which in the last half century has been domesticated and ex- 
panded from its original magenta into a dozen dazzling colors, and without which Southern 
California would be infinitely poorer in flowering splendor. It has been our privilege to in- 
troduce to California over the past quarter century about eighty per cent of the Bougain- 
villea varieties now in general distribution here. As a source for these welcome additions 
to our gardens we drew on amateurs, professionals, botanic gardens, etc., in South Amer- 
ica, Mexico, Florida, Sicily, Jamaica, India and Australia. 
Until about three years ago the only Bougainvilleas know, 4o ps 
rambling types, usually of great vigor. Among several unnaméd geedli 
imported for test was one with an unmistakable departuye jn 
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VOL. 4 JUNE, 1953 No. 2 
IT’S TIME FOR 
. . . Summer-flowing vines—one of the 
distinctive features of the Southern Cali- 
fornia garden—and a feature often over- 
looked because most of us are too lazy to 
train and control vines properly. It is also 
time for the inevitable preparation for the 
coming hot dry weather, and for filling 
vacant spots with outstanding perennials 
and summer flowering shrubs. 
To select and plant HOT WEATHER 
VINES in the winter and early spring is 
usually a mistake. You can tell something 
about what they are going to look like 
right now, in June, and furthermore they 
will transplant well and start to grow 
almost immediately. Some of them will 
give you a display this season; all will be 
at their best next summer if set out in 
June of this season. If you have a really 
hot place in a hot garden, try ANTIG- 
ONON LEPTOPUS (Rosa de Montana) for 
masses of shocking pink on golden green 
leaves; this vine is deciduous and semi- 
herbaceous, so it will never become a 
pest in the Los Angeles area. Another 
heat lover with reserved growth habits is 
JACQUEMONTIA CAERULEA, a little 
climber (or spiller) with gray-green leaves 
and light pure blue blossoms, to be kept 
on the dry side. If it's brilliant orange you 
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RE: DEARTH OF THE BLUES 
The Acid Test 
Immense flowers as well as large leaves 
make our plant for June a real standout, 
for the Hydrangea, for decades a favorite 
plant in Southern California, has found 
new use in contemporary gardens stressing 
the extravagant leaves of the tropics. 
Our colorful collection includes both the 
robust species, H. Macrophylla (Hortensis), 
and the more refined and showy French 
hybrids which vary greatly as to color, 
ranging from white to pink and rose and 
on the blue, this variance being in direct 
proportion to acidity of the soil. A good 
blue Hydrangea is simply the result of 
quantity additions or irontone or alum sul- 
phate (winter and spring) to the soil of a 
strong pink plant, the stronger the pink, 
the stronger the resulting blue. 
Adaptable as to exposure, Hydrangeas 
are ideally situated on the east side, are 
exceedingly hardy, require considerable 
moisture in warm weather, and_ profit 
greatly by a sharp pruning after the flow- 
ering season (now through summer and into 
fall). Gallon cans, $1; five gallon cans, 
$3.50 and $4. 
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