The “= Grapevine 
VOL. 3 FEBRUARY, 1953 NO. 10 
VIEWS OF HUES 
IT’S TIME FOR... 
Taking stock of the dull spots in our 
gardens and carrying on the drama already 
well begun. Even a very small patio has 
at least one highlight of inspiration in 
February —a_ fine Oriental Magnolia, a 
pink and white Peach tree, or a mass of 
Daffodils. Now let's work from there and 
finish the picture. 
If you like FLAME and red and yellow 
for your strong points, pick a CORAL 
TREE, Erythrina constantiana ($5 in a five 
gallon can), now while you can see the big 
trees in bloom; or a BOTTLE BRUSH—- 
Callistemom, three species and habits of 
growth ($1 to $17.50); FLAME EUCALYP- 
TUS, E. ficifolia ($1, $4.50 and up); 4 
bed of PRIMULA POLYANTHUS in gold, 
bronze and deep red for the shadows un- 
der these trees; BROOM and HALINIUM 
and late ACACIA for the hillside (85 cents 
to $5); GLADS ($1 a dozen) and CARNA- 
TIONS (45 cents each) for your cutting 
beds; yellow ROCK ALYSSUM (85 cents, 
one gallon) and SALVIA BONFIRE (50 
cents a dozen) for your borders. 
If you're a BLUE lover, right now is 
the time to get your fill of DELPHINIUMS 
(45 cents, $4.50 a dozen) in separate shades 
of blue, balled, ready to bloom within a 
few weeks. Then there are blue CANTER- 
BURY BELLS balled at same price, LO- 
BELIA light and dark (45 cents a dozen); 
VERONICA SPICATA, FELICIA COERU- 
LEA, PENSTEMON HETEROPHYLLA 
(85 cents) and any number of other blue 
perennials and annuals to buy now, among 
which our own specially grown CINERA- 
RIAS are outstanding (35 cents to $1.50). 
Ask us to help you assemble a whole blue 
garden for you if you wish. 
As for WHITE in the garden, we have 
slowly been acquiring just about everything 
there is in that popular and wonderful 
color — white AGERATUM (45 cents a 
dozen), all the various SHASTA DAISIES 
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TROPIC SNOWFLAKE 
The believe-it-or-not looking leaf pic- 
tured herewith belongs to a rare Aralace- 
ous plant called TREVESIA, and, depend- 
ing largely on your Rorschach quotient, 
may resemble large glossy green snow- 
flakes, wind-torn umbrellas, kalaidescopic 
inventions, or hand-torn doilies, but the 
cumulative effect is an eye-arresting shrub, 
second to none. 
Horticultural references dealing with 
exotic plants for ‘'stove houses’’ or con- 
servatories have spoken most highly of this 
foliage subject with the intricately-pat- 
terned leaves ever since its discovery more 
than one hundred years ago, yet Trevesia 
has remained a rare plant in cultivation. 
(The name, incidentally, honors Signor 
Treves de Bonfigli of Padua, an eighteenth 
century patron of botanical research.) With 
_ the exception of a solitary specimen in a 
southland botanic garden, Trevesia, as far 
as we know, did not arrive here until about 
two years ago. In this very limited time, 
however, the performance of the plant 
leads us to believe that it will be very 
happy in our local gardens with no special 
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