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

folded, to the bright green leaves that
the long year round never look for even
a moment weary, along the sinuous red
of the arms to the shining brown of the
heavy trunk it is a handsome bush.
This too would make hedge strong
enough to turn almost anything but a
bear yet there would be no coarsenes s
about it. A very Little water and trim
ming would make such a hedge picture
as well as fence.
And where do we find a mountain ash
that is much more pretty than the
heteromeles CIR holly as it is called !?
This holds its green leaves unfading
through the winter and from among
them CLEAN the bright red berries but a
little smaller than those, of the mountain
ash and about equal to them in color.
We gather it for Christmas and go into
ecstasies when we see one looking so
bright with green and red when all else
is Sere, yet where do we find it in the
garden? Even the common sumac is a
bush not to be despised when it has a
fair chance to show what it can do.
Because many of these shrubs are born
to struggle with dry and stony soils it
does not follow that they should be
judged by their efforts under adversely
They set US examples of conuuering
environment that We would all do we'll
to follow but like many of us they can
| also stand prosperity, and none of them
more SO than the sumac. This again is
an evergreen and SO is the smaller kind
that bears the red berries that almost
make lemonade. Both smile in brightest
green the whole year through with a
very little water and with trimming
make as symmetrical bushes as can be
| found.
When does the eye tire of the live oak
Go to Pasadena and beyond, and when
| ever you see fine live oak you are sur
| prised to find how grand it looks by con-
! trast with the eternal palm, pepper or
eucalyptus. Even the camphor and rub
Der tree can give it few points in beauty,
and when it is at its best nothing else can
surpass it. The mountain live oak-the
| golden-leaved oaks still more hand
some. 1t grows as low down as the
mouth of Rubio canyon, and with water
enough would no doubt grow near sea
| level. This is the toughest of all the
woods of the coast and, the finest in
grain. 1t eXcels even the shellbark
hickory in hardness and freedom from
checking and is but slightly inferior in
| fleXibility. The bright green of the
leaves, the golden tinge that shows SO
brightly in the sun and it's ever-varyine
form make it in all respects lovely tree.
While white-b arked live oak of the low
country is not the equal of the other two
in brightness and beauty, it is still tree
that would be an ornament anywhere
Some of those yet remaining in Pasa-
dena look as we'll as most any of the
foreign trees and about Lamanda Park
they mingle to advantage with the dark
live oak.
The native walnut, though deciduous
| is very pretty tree and the nut it bears
as fine as the eastern butternut, though
a little smaller. In the greater part o.
the country it is never seen, being con.
fined mainly to Los Angeles county
Ventura and Santa Barbara, but no ten.
ant of the hills Is fairer when it is ir
lusty life, and few samples of it would
damage no handsome place. We have al
least one native pine that will grow alone
the coast-Torrey's pine-found in Sar
Diego county only on small strip alons
the coast. 1t bears hard nut, quite a.
sweet as a hickory nut, and seems L
stand any amount of drouth
These are but samples of long list o.