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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874)
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: (Gardeners' Chronicle)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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24, 1895.) HIE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 209 plant is aa jet little known, we append the followingparticular! taken from Elwes noble monograph :—Extract from Dr. Parry a account of the plant: —In one of my laBt botanical excursions in thevicinity of San Bernardino in July, 1S76, I acceptedan oft-repeated invitation (o visit the intelligentbrother! J. P. and F. M. Ring in their mountain •ion of the Sauth Pacific Railroad. In one of thesemountain nooks the Meaara. Ring have located aPotato ranch, the elevation of over 4000 feet giviDga sufficiently cool, moist climate, while the adjoiningmountain-slopes afford an extensive summer cattle-range long after the herbage of the lowlanda hasdried np. np with rank Willow and Alder growths, and occa-sionally expand into small meadows of coarse grassand aedgea. On all the ateep gravelly slope sadjoining, therewas the usual display of Californian evergreenshrubbery, including the Heath-like Adenoatoma(which, under the name of chamieal, ia largely
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FlO. 42.—LILICM PABBTI: FLOWEBS C1TBON YLLLOW, FBAGEANT. (SEE P. 208.) retreat near San Gorgonio Pass. Leaving the broadand picturesque baain of the Santa-Anna Valleynear the emergence of the stream from the ruggedmountain-wall of the San Bernardino range, our route,after crossing Mill Creek, hugged the foothills bor-dering the Upper Tucaipa valley ; thence, by a morerapid ascent in a nearly direct easterly course, wereached an elevated bench scattered with Pine andOak groves, overlooking the broad sweep of the SanGorgonio Pass, tow tiaversed by the eastern exten- In scattered groves of Pinus Coulteri, the groundwas Btrewn with the massive cones of thia peculiarspecies, its dense acalea armed with formidablehooked spines. Many of the cones were fully6 inches in diameter, with a length of 9 inches. The few perennial watercourses here met withare mostly confined within deep and inaccessibleravines; but more frequently scanty springs oozeout from beneath deep layers of porous strata, a

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