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Title: California Garden, Vol. 7, No. 7, January 1916
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: San Diego Floral Association
Subjects: gardening San Diego California Horticulture
Publisher: San Diego Floral Association
Contributing Library: San Diego Floral Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Balboa Park Online Collaborative

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D.TOINING the Southern CaliforniaCounties Building on the north is areplica of an old English formalJ garden—not of any one in particular,but nevertheless of the type. However, thedesigner, Capt. Gray, says that when he plant-ed the grass strips which form a part of theborders of each flower bed, he had in mindthe grass walks in the famous Kew Gardens.Here the grass walks would not be practic-able, so the idea was adapted to fit the changedenvironment. On the side of the garden is a colorful bedof Penstemon in mixed colors, combined withBlue Ageratum, Agathaea coelestis (the tinyblue African Daisy). The shrubbery groupof this bed contains the variegated form ofVeronica Purple Queen, Duranta plumieri, theGolden variegated Euonymous, and Arbutusunedo, the Strawberry tree. The bed nextadjoining is of Blue Ageratum and Poinsettias,and Alyssum Little Gem, the shrubbery usedbeing Raphiolepis ovata, the Japanese Haw-thorn, which, true to its native home, is to
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Seven Southern California Counties Gardens The symmetrical boxed cypress placed atregular intervals throughout the garden, theformally pruned borders of- Crimson RamblerRoses and of Myrtus communis, the lattersuggesting the box borders of the old world,together with the Dracaena indivisa set ex-actly in the center of things, all intensify theformality of design. The two beds nearest the building are al-most entirely of shrubbery, including massesof Hypericum grandiflorum, conspicuous forits clusters of small yellow flowers, now com-ing into bloom. Salvia splendens is used tofurnish a note of bright color in both beds.Besides these two, shrubbery has been usedin each of the flower beds to lend a bit ofvariety. other Southern California shrubbery as theJapanese dwarfed Cypress is to the MontereyCypress. The last bed on this side contains Zinniasand Dahlias in many colors, later on to besupplemented or succeeded, as the case maybe, by Gladiolus, Mrs. Francis King—one ofthe best. Leptos

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