This court will show a succession of beautiful bloom throughout the
year. The daffodils will have their golden season, the rhododendrons
their brilliant sheet of color, and in May the columns will support our
various climbing roses, exhaling their perfume for all who come to this
Land of Flowers.
Summer flowering annuals will follow and later the autumnal flowers.
Read the quotation on the aisle side of the Arch of the Rising Sun:
"The balmy air diffuses health and fragrance,
So tempered is the genial glow that we know neither heat nor cold.
Tulips and Hyacinths abound.
Fostered by a delicious clime, the earth blooms like a garden."
- Firdausi.
(Annals of Kai-Kaus, in James Atkinson's translation of Shah Nameh.)
So, while thinking of a Persian garden in the quotation, we feel the
applicability of these words to the California gardens.
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