IT’S TIME FOR... 
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Winter Flax at $1.25 and face all with 
PENTSTEMOM HETEROPHYLLA, _ blue, 
one and one half feet at 95 cents: lemon 
GAZANIA from flats, 75 ‘cents a dozen: 
and you have a varying mass of color 
throughout winter and spring. 
Partially shady areas between and in 
front of shrubbery can be conditioned 
with Humisite and Georgia peat and 
planted to CINERARIA, giant (two and 
one half feet) or short (one foot), separate 
colors (light and dark blue, pinks, white, 
maroon) in three-inch pots at $3.60 a 
dozen; mixed colors in flats at 50 cents a 
- dozen. In front of Cineraria set‘PRIMULA, 
either P, MALACOIDES for quick feathery 
bloom in deep rose, white or pastels; P. 
OBCONICA for somewhat larger, later, 
cerise and blue; or P. POLYANTHA, the 
golds, bronzes and deep blues of spring. 
In shady places where immediate strong 
color is desired, don't forget CYCLAMEN. 
The six-months CAMELLIA season _ is 
with us again, and never have we had 
more or better five gallon plants at $6 
up. We refer you especially to a few we 
consider among the easiest and most 
adaptable—Finlandia and Joshua Youtz in 
white, Mrs. Howard Asper and C. M. Wil- 
son in shell pink, Pope Pius and Col. Fiery 
in red, Emperor Wilhelm (Gigantea) and 
Aurora Borealis in variegated. In addition 
to these well-known Camellia. japonica hy- 
brids we offer newer and better CAMEL- 
LIA SASANQUAS, the small-leaved half- 
vining species as good in sun as in shade, 
espaliered or an informal shrub. Jean May 
is a sensational new double shell pink sa- 
sanqua, Narumigata a lotus-like single in 
pink and white, $3 to $6 in one gallons. 
Newly graded banks and uncovered hill- 
sides are going to be sliding soon. Even 
where superficially clothed with ground- 
covers you'd better get going some deep- 
rooting shrubs that eventually shift for 
themselves. Furthermore dry areas offer the 
garden possibilities in plant materials sel- 
dom satisfactory in the cultivated too- 
moist garden. ACACIA PODALYRIAEFO- 
LIA (the Pearl), A. PENDULA, A. CULTRI- 
FORMIS and A. VERTICILLATA add 
strong yellow to the winter landscape in 
such situations, with various SUMACS and 
ATRIPLEX in the more impossible places. 
Well drained lightly watered slopes may 
make use of the equally yellow CASSIA 
ARTEMISIOIDES, blue ECHIUM, pink 
buckwheat (ERIOGONUM), and all the 
High Coon 
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a hot wall or roof it is a glorious thing; 
but it would be a mistake to start enumer- 
ating these loved and lost. It is a paintul 
subject and would take too much space. 
The old Roses too: ''Gold of Ophir''— 
we had it climbing over our ranch house 
in San Diego County and in the old days 
there were plenty of these lovely Roses on 
old houses and barns, but where are they 
now? Many of the old Roses too, Marie 
Van Houtte for instance and many others, 
were unsurpassed for vigor and bloom, but 
| am treading on sacred ground and must 
retreat before | wound the sensibilities of 
my Rose growing friends. 
| cannot however avoid a slight and 
passing remonstrance against some of the 
Rose and Chrysanthemum awards made 
in the last few years. In spite of many of 
outstanding merit, quite a number of Roses 
and Chrysanthemums heralded with a great 
fanfare are already virtually forgotten. 
Only the other day | was regarding one of 
these Roses now fallen from its high estate. 
The poor thing had a shattered constitution 
and was hanging its head dejectedly as 
though with premonitions of impending 
doom. 
And we should be grateful to the old 
gardeners for the palms they planted, now 
towering into the air and_ silhouetted 
against the skyline with such majesty and 
grace. 
various DUSTY MILLERS so commonly and 
badly used in wet places. The tallest Dusty 
Miller has ‘finely cut foliage of great 
beauty, cutting value and lavender blos- 
soms on six-foot shrubs four feet across; 
a newer coarser cut-leaf from spills over 
retaining walls or makes a_ sprawling 
groundcover with really showy masses, yel- 
low flowers, all 65 cents to 85 cents in one 
gallon. 
Outstanding ornamentals of which we 
are fortunate in having a very few good 
specimens are DRIMYS WINTERI, a rare 
hardy evergreen tree of the Magnolia 
family with fragrant white flowers, $2 and 
$6; and an ABUTILON HYBRID with small 
green and white leaves and soft yellow 
flowers with dark red eye. This Abutilon is 
especially adapted to raised planting boxes 
in part shade, spilling over sloping shady 
banks or in pots—full-bloom specimens, 
five gallon cans at $4.50. Ree 
