The herald., 1895-09-01

contrast of this warm-tinted gravel, with
| cool, dark green stretch of sward, is
both harmonious and effective.
White cement, however. has 1.-THE call. y
1t has, OF must have. a beauty quite its
own-so has pink tinsel Cupid atop a
frosted wedding cake.
Walks and drives of cement are the
fitting accessories to the Italian garden;
such one as you find IN Sutl o park. San
Francisco. and it is n matter of surprise
to me to think that so little publicity has
been given to this really unique and
charming pleasure ground, and that it is
so little known to tho world outside of
San Francisco. Its well trimmed yews
and close-clipred cypress are marvels of
topiary art. In one recess couchant
lion, ready to spring upon bounding
hart in bronze. in case he should escape the
yard-long shaft that a milk white Diana
across the path mas leveied at him.
In every nook you find busts and statues
of every hero and heroineof mythology,
and everv prim and formal plant known
to every cline. Tho very carpet beds
contain the signs of the Zodiac, and n OF
one inharm onious incident occurs to mar
this. the most effective illustration of an
old time, old world garden upon this con-
tintnt. In the south, to a small extent,
we have been feeble imitators. One pro-
prietor, after his return from a visit to
Sutros, Immediately planted pair of
in the middle of his lawn. Between
them, sleeping terra Gotta mastiff.
The rabbits look ferce-the dog enjoying
healess slumbers which not the most
optimistic dog of my acquaintance would
concede as possible IN this climate. The
culver of the leaves of the quivering
Chinese fan palm near by (Tarchycarpus
, excelsus) nor the billowy, bending sprays
of acacias lightly tossed about in the soft
breezes can provoke SO much as one
tremble of the rabbits lip. and a rabbit
| without ;remble IS lncompatible with
ANYTHING save pot pie and Sutro's. There,
| the statuesqueness and immobility of the
vegetation alone would admit of a quiver-
| less rabbit.
So with a life-size bronze boy ami
grounds ON South Hill street. He is clad
only in an expanded bronze um mbrella.
mole monstrous incongruity if possible
| in boy than in a fountain.
| OF the color bed iniquity. we are rea-
sonably free, and those who indulge in
that method of Landscape decoration now
do so fro.h motives Of thrift. The most
palatial grounds in Santa Monica. the
home of a United States senator, have
| the lawns hopelessly mangled with these
| mosaics. From the streets the letterings
appear to read somebody's "Sarsapa-
rilla," and unless there was considera-
| ton in sight one is at a loss to conceive
a motive for the ruinous wreck of one of
the grandest expanses of green turf in
| Southern California.
There, at Santa Monica, the beautiful
cape silver tree is at home. Equally we'll
it thrIves up into the mountain foothills.
Good-the best drainage--seems to be a
! sine qua non, but in all other respects 1t
seems conform a BILE to rather varied eli
matte conditions. In Pasadena 1t has
been effectively planted against back
ground of som Der evergreens. or even or
ange trees. darkened more or less by the
scale insects.
The leaves of a well-grown plant are as
bright and white as a newly mintod dol
lar, and are carried away for souvenir
book. marks BY tourists wearied of we'll
| doing and souvenir spoons.