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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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miles arenow finished. BetAveen the road and the houses on eachside are four rows of tall eucalyptus and spreading pep-per-trees, and two rows of fan palms, ten to twenty feetin height, and growing more beautiful every year. Noris this fine avenue a monopoly of carriage-owners; forthe poorest can enjoy its sights by paying ten cents fora ride in the street cars, which have their track under arow of pepper-trees, Avithout interfering with the broadcarriage-drive. In this way Riverside spreads itself out,covering a territory, orchards included, of fifty-foursquare miles, and almost realizing the ideal of one ofthose California rural cities of the future, sketched inthe last chapter. The grounds of some of the elegantvillas which line this road are thrown open to the pub-lic, and one of them, which I examined, with its exten-sive stables, shady walks, hammocks, tennis grounds,and notices of club meetings, and al-fresco teas, had anair of hospitality and sociability, recalling the life on
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THE HOME OP THE ORANGE. 43 Southern plantations before the Civil War. The largeadobe house, a relic of the Spanish occupation, was deli-ciously cool on a warm day, and the owner said he didnot find it unhealthy. He showed me through his ex-tensive orchard, and with a large table-knife cut openspecimens of more than half-a-dozen different kinds ofbudded oranges for me to taste. They were all sweetand juicy, but he had to admit himself that the differ-ences in flavor were not so pronounced as the differencesin the original homes of these varieties led one to expect.California fruit-growers doubtless attempt too much inseeking to raise oranges from so many different coun-tries in the same field without losing their characteristicflavor. This difference in flavor is due to differences insoil and climate, and can only be preserved and repro-duced in a similar soil and climate. As California for-tunately has an infinite variety of climates and soil, itis probable that the problem of raising

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