Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-13

oBo &0t uOlu VI tu6 bCIe6U CI eOme
dlscontented man to whom Cali
fornia 10 not all Q Paradise. He ev.
identity expected, when he came
here, to see angels wings sprout.
Ing from his shoulders, and sup
posed that he had reached the re.
klon where life was as fully divest.
Cd Of all drawbacks as 1t is assumed
that II will be in the "sweet by
and by" which Is the burden of
the dreams Of the devout. He
claims that there are great, dusty
stretches in California which are
devoid Of orchards, clover fields
and outrageous elms, NAPLES and
white and black oaks, and that, all
through the summer, the country
not irrigated is dun and bare look
ing. He admits, however, that in
the winter California takes on q
very attractive and vernal hue.
He contrasts with this the bloom.
ing Eastern country, with it's ap.
pie and peach orchards, its odorous
meadows and the lilacs and roses
clustering around the farmers
houses. Now we concede the fact
that the rural aspect of life in Cali.
fornia Is aften bare and uninviting
lin fact, In the more newly set
tied portions of the State, it is
nearly always 80. And why? Be-
cause nearly all these people came
to California, until the past ten
years, to make q "stake" and get
back East. But there are also
rural regions In California that are
simply indescribably lovely. The
lilac and rose bushes he speaks of
are there, and they are supple.
mentsd by heliotropes, which
grow to the third story of houses
and bloom all the year round, and
by camslias and tuberoses and
hyacinths, that bloom in the open
air In mid.winter. He says that
We have very brief season of
vsrdure following the winter rains.
Taking Los Angeles as the point
Of departure, let us see how that is.
The present has been q year of far
less than the usual rainfall. The
drst considerable rain began in the
last days Of November. By the 7th
of December the whole country
was clad in a mantle of
the brightest emerald. We write
on the 18th Of April-more than
four months later-and the hill
sides and lowlands are still as verdi
ant as "tenderfoot" newly arrived |
In Arizona. They will remain 80 |
for month longer, and then they |
will merge into the sers and yellow,
which 10 as we'll understood in the
East as here. Thus we have five
full months Of the most intense
vernal hues on hill and dale, to say
Of our fragrant orange
groves and sprouting vineyards.
On the other hand, 1t begins to get
green In the East about the mid.
lie Of April. The waving mead.
Dws are ready for the mower in
that section about July-a period
'fscarcely three months. Every one
knows how attractive and pictur-
'sque the stubble left by the NOW.
" 10, and then almost i'm II ed lately
|0mss the snow-''the beautiful |
now" With great modesty we
acknowledge ourselves to be the
Iuthor OF the exquisite poem so en-
titled, and we we're impelled to
vrite 1t by the fact that, in that
'ortlon OF the East from which we
anne, its feecy fakes could gener.
lily be relied upon as there or
hereabouts from the middle of 90.
ober till tho middle of March. The
'hols question is. thus resolved
nt0 the proposition as to whether
10 better to take little too much Q
ust and sunshine or a surfeit of 9
ROW and a temperature ranging {
slow zero, month In and month :
ntf Few people would hesitate =
J to their choice. 3
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