The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25

which there is plenty of room? No COM
mon frost hurts it, it needs little water,
yet little cultivation would make it
pour out shower of bloom that few
foreign flowers can surpass.
For those who have little water yet
would have something bright around
them what is better than the mimulus
that smiles all summer from the chinks
in the old piles of rocks. There it is full
all summer eff red trumpets and there
with cream color, and if this is not
bright enough, in any of the canyons
can be found the great golden bells of
the mountain mimulus that with a little
more water will give you as fine blaze
of color for little care as you could
wish. Match the pentstemons with
your foreign stuff. You may get some
thing larger but scarcely anything more
delicate than this beardtongue of cream
color, lavender, blue and purple that
is so common on the burnt grounds in
early summer Yet it is too common
and probably no garden in the land has
it. 1t is difficult to see why the tiger lily
that swings it's red in the mountain
meadow or the columbine that mods be-
side the boulders along the brock could
not be made to grow near sea level, and
certainly they would not damage the
eternal monotony of pansies, heliotropes
and geraniumS. Hundreds of native
flowers are found in our hills and dales
that would adorn any garden and never
did nature spread a fairer sight than
these used to make in a season of suffi-
cient rain before sheep and fires ravaged
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ANIMALS and could be grown with ease
from the seed for this is the way they
grow every year. To gather the seed
can be no great task and no care can. be
| required about the sowing. Give them
the same cultivation that the foreign
plant has and you will rarely be
ashamed of the native,
| Equally rare are our wild shrubs in
garden or hedge. Yet where is there
anything sweeter than the heavy strings
| of carmine tubes that hang from the
dark shining green of the wild goose
berry? Have we any too much bloom
in our garden of foreign stuff in March ,
What harm would a few of this rich
evergreen Go. when it will hold it's bright
green all through the year, even without
any care? Granting that the wild lilac
of the hillsides is not an agreeable aid
| to flight when an irate grizzly is rag
| ing in your rear. where is there any
shrub that can Surpass it for color and
| fragrance when it is in bloom? And how
many will retain the delicate tints OF
| green unchanged through any amour;
of neglect the whole year through
Well watered and trimmed into hedge
| it will make fence the small boy will
never climb, and even the festive Thorn
as cat will not seek it's top to serenads
the moon when you wish to sleep; blu;
nothing better holds it's charm, and
there is no law compelling you to e.
through it. 1t is very much the same
with the mountain mahogany, though
not SO stiff and unyielding. The whit.
and the lavender mixed should make ar
array that the eye will ever rest on with
pleasure, as it does when these shrubs
of the chapparal are in the full bloom
of spring and you do not have to &c
through them too often.
Those who rove the hills find strange
| charm about the manzanita. Where il
| has plenty of water as in the mountains
it wears more lasting brightness than
anything that grows. From the little
urn-shaped flowers of creamy hue
slightly tinged with red that come al a
time when so many other flowers are