April 24—We were pleased to find the low-growing Viburnum Cariesii—the Korean Guelder Rose—in flower today; the flowers have a very pleasing fragrance and as we did not require a step ladder to help us admire the clusters of pinkish flowers, we liked it immensely. The other taller-growing and, in comparison, practically scentless snowball trees are coming into flower and they will shortly be brightening up local gardens with their globular heads of white flowers from which they derive their common name. When admiring the bronze-red new foliage of one of the varieties of Punica granatum the other day, we visualized the attractive orange red flowers which will be produced in due course. "Tommy" told me that the pomegranate was a tree of much historical interest and we later found that it was called Carthaginian apple at one time. We also discovered that in the temples built by Solomon, figures of the fruit of the pomegranate were used to adorn some of the pillars. Moses is reported to have referred to the tree being in the promised land. We wonder how many Pecan trees there are in local gardens: we saw some healthy specimens in a garden sending forth new leaves; the tree is known botanically as Carya. Pecan and it is native to North America A cloud of yellow pollen arising from a shrubbery group attracted our attention as we were passing along the road today and we were reminded of the annual "privet cough scare." We investigated and found that a native gardener working inside the group had shaken a Pine
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