The herald., 1895-08-18
LANDSCAPE ART IN LOS ANGELES
No. II-BY w. S. LYON

Our last demonstrated that we are
strong on color, ard now it can be veri-
i fed. A home on Olive street (so-called,
as within the memory of man no olive
tree ever grew within miles OF it). is at
the present moment resplendent with the
fla shing scarlet fires of Tacsonia manicata
| and the brilliant mauve pink OF Bougain.
| Villa giabra.
Nemesis, in form of a small, hairy
wriggling thing with an appetite for the
foliage of the scarlet passion vine, is at
hand. When that is gone, and by way of
dessert, it next best loves to browse upon
the extreme inwards of people who plant
scarlet and nauve running things cheek
by-jowi. Tenderfoot, to whom l had ex-
ultingly exhibited this triumph of our
gardening skill. unfeelingly observed
'that if he had the ordering of things,
that that bug be reorganized and his daily
menu reversed so that dessert would
como first" This Bougainvillia is worth
a passing note. One. years old, COM
rletelv covers the south side of large
house on College street. With q back
ground in color of primrose yellow, it
makes throughout the year a flood of
mauve glory that recalls the very best of
Church or Bierstadt's tropical atmos-
pheres.
Ne are also strong in big things. From
landscape point of view there is nothing
small about us. friend bought town
lot for $4,000 and rubber tree for 81. He
planted the tree a few years ago in order
that it might grow to trees estate by this
time he was ready to build. Now he is
prepared to build and bitterly complains
that the tree has taken the lot and that
there Is no room for his house says he
will sell the tree to anyone for SPOOL, and
give them the lot.
The dryness of our atmosphere alone
induces the rubber tree to say at home.
In more humid atmospheres its aerial
rootlets fall to the soil. start up afresh
as new trees. and the whole business
marches on like procession, or John
Browns soul.
The witches in Macbeth had rubber
trees in mind when they predicted that
great Birnams wood should move to
Dunsnane's hill.'
My friend cannot build, but desires
some compensation. He now regularly
mlllss his tree and therefrom derives
enough rubber to repair the family 60
10 }hes, to make nipple for the baby's
bottle, and with the addition uf little
sugar, the winter supply of chewing
gum.
Among big things we go in for Sequoias,
have in miEd tiny lot, twenty-five feet
front, on either side Of the narrow path
way leading to the house stands a giant.
When young how Justify they grew; how
they waxed both fat and tall, until they
infringed upon the narrow roadway and
took rude liberties with my lady's trap
pings as she passed tu and fro pulled her
Golf awry. or, for aught l know pedaubed
with pitch her silken stomacher. Then
wrath stirred her soul and imprecation
her lips. and the family heir equipped
with carte blanche and hand-ax was
turned in to open up right of way.
These trees, 'trimmed up" stu stand
there, still push their spires heavenward
and promise in time to become duplicates
OF their huge prototypes in the Valley of
SKulls-the most loveless, the least beau
tiful objects in the vegetable kingdom.
This. not to deciy the Sequoia, at its
best, and properly grown as seen in O
Pico street garden, though still young ana
perhaps undei thirty feet in height; il is
thing of Joy and beauty, worthy a trip
ACROSS continent to eco. Already its