. Autumn Action 
out and will be in your hands and also a folder 
on “Bulb Culture.’’ As usual our Dutch im- 
portations of Tulips and Hyacinths are ‘‘tops’’ 
both in size and quality and carefully selected 
as to variety for local conditions. With regard 
to Daffodils, we offer some 15 varieties and 
suggest that you plant a number of them 
rather than all one type. By doing this you 
will find that the flowering period can be 
greatly extended. 
In our October issue, 1952, we urged our 
clients to try a planting of Muscari and La- 
chenalia for a blue and yellow combination. 
We received gratifying reports. If you have 
not already done so, try it this season. They 
are both great performers, long flowering and 
increase surprisingly. 
Lilies are not included in our catalog, but 
we will have the following: auratum, Regal, 
rubrum, tigrinum, Henryi, giganteum, Belling- 
ton Hybrids, Olympic Hybrids and Mid-Century. 
We suggest that if you are planning on any 
of these that you place your order so that we 
may fill it immediately upon arrival of the 
stock. It is important that you plant these while 
they are fresh and firm. 
Now is a good time to plant that Lemon, 
Orange, Tangerine or Lime. We have particu- 
larly fine stock at $5.50 each. Avocados too, 
in varieties that will provide fruit, year round, 
Priced $7.50 each. 
Among recent arrivals at the nursery is a 
vivid scarlet Verbena from Peru, a true pe- 
rennial, which spreads rapidly, clinging close 
to the ground with no sign of the mildew which 
so often attacks Verbenas. It has great prom- 
ise, and will probably give the old ground 
covers keen competition. This new Verbena is 
offered at $1 each in one gallon cans. 
At the nursery we have colored, life-like 
illustrations of the fabulously beautiful Reticu- 
lata hybrid Camellias. Our salesmen will be 
pleased to show you these, and tell you of a 
very special offer the firm is making to our 
clients in this connection. 
Hawaiian homes is a very small all-rock gar- 
den on the dry side of Kauai, near Poipu Beach. 
Conceived for low maintainence on a wind- 
swept mesa of black lava, this gem of out-door 
living is a sophisticated study in red and gray 
succulents and driftwood, with a sand-and- 
pebble dry stream of the highest tradition and 
beauty, a staggered wind baffle of lichen- 
covered lava walls, drifts of golden-green 
Scaevola, hot exposures cooled by the gray- 
green leaves and blush blossoms of the pink 
woodrose (Dipladenia rosea). The too-curious 
glances of passersby are foiled by a magnifi- 
cent screen of our own well-loved Natal plum 
(Carissa grandiflora) always heavy with fruit 
and blossom, and from anywhere in the garden 
one looks east across wind-tossed chaparral of 
koa haole (Leucaena glauca) and deep grassy 
valleys of sugar cane to sharp dark shoulders 
of the Old Hoary Range. In all other directions 
lie turquoise ocean broken only by white surf 
and black lava shoals, or at night in the south 
the brightest of all constellations—the glitter- 
ing Southern Cross. Pee. G? 
H ugh Cuans 
Are we at odds with the world and inclined 
to bewail our outcast state? Do we feel that 
things are all wrong and getting worse? We 
can solace ourselves in our gardens. If the 
garden possesses the priceless boon of privacy 
and is somewhat remote from the madding 
crowd, so much the better for us and our 
peace and contentment, for in the garden we 
can shake off our perplexities and troubles and 
“knit up the ravell’d sleeve of care.”’ 
In our gardens, too, should dwell memories, 
plants which were bestowed on us by some 
valued friends, some perhaps passed behind the 
veil. | could stroll around my old garden when 
so many of the various plants in it, aside from 
their intrinsic interest and beauty, had some 
special interest attached to them. Here perhaps 
some gay little shrub from West Australia, 
the sole survivor of many seeds originally sown, 
and plants sent to me by collectors from all 
over the world. Over there, some beautiful 
thing from far away which | had been trying 
to procure for several years until my efforts 
finally were crowned with success. Only quite 
recently | was admiring a particularly fine 
specimen of an uncommon flowering tree in a 
large garden and remarking on its beauty, 
when the owner smiled and remarked, ‘’Well 
you gave it to me seventeen years ago.”’ | had 
forgotten, but he had not. This tree will de- 
light passersby after both of us have gone and 
its original source has been forgotten. 
When we sit at peace in our garden and 
watch those living jewels swooping and dart- 
ing among the flowers, see the orioles busy 
about their artistic and curious nests, hear the 
song of the mocking bird, we should feel at 
peace. If ever a Divinity does hedge us round 
it must be in a garden. 
“Not God in gardens, when the eve is cool 
Nay, but | have a sign 
"Tis very sure, God walks in mine.’ 
— Thomas E. Browne 
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BROMELIADS ... 
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blue, red, yellow or green emerge from this 
central reservoir and in some cases last as 
long as five or six months. (Aechmea fasciata, 
Grapevine of August, 1951). Apart from keep- 
ing the cup of the plant filled the root system 
should receive some water about once a week 
with some standard liquid fertilizer added once 
a month. Any situation affording a reasonably 
strong light is acceptable. A center piece cre- 
ated by a Neoregilia Carolinae for example 
offers interior decoration without equal. 
Please come in and let us show you in ad- 
dition. Aechmea fasciata, Aechmea Orlandiana, 
Nidularium Regeliodes, Nidularium Innocentii 
Striata (illustrated), Vriesia hybrid Marie 
and Vriesia splendens. Large plants in four 
inch pots $6.50 and $10. M.E. 
