NI NOT By John A. Armstrong We have in California a number of dual trees and plants which are sufficiently handsome in foliage and flower to serve purely as ornamentals, and which, at the same time, bear useful crops of fruit. One of the finest of this type of plant is the Meyer Lemon, citrus fruit which should be widely planted in all California gardens. Fengtai is Its Birthplace The Meyer Lemon is not a hybrid but is a distinct citrus species found only few years ago in a remote region' of China by one of the famous plant explorers of the United States Department of Agriculture, Mr. Frank Meyer. It is sometimes called the Chinese Dwarf Lemon because it does not grow quite as large as the ordinary Lemon tree. If it bore no fruit at all, the Meyer Lemon would still be worth planting as an ornamental in our gardens because it makes a splendid, bushy, dense-foliaged shrub, growing to about eight feet and with flowers on it during almost the entire year. These flowers are much larger than the ordinary Orange or Lemon blossom and are exceedingly fragrant, exceeding even the Orange in the intensity of their perfume. Makes the Finest Lemonade The fruit, also borne throughout the year, is almost double the size of the usual Lemon, roundish-oval in shape, and of rich orange-yellow color; about halfway between the Orange and an ordinary Lemon in appearance. It will serve any purpose to which a Lemon can be put and is available almost from the time the plant is put out, because the plants bear immediately and are almost never without fruit from that time