The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-25
RIVERSIDE AND Al L1NaroN.
Balsamio Aroma Waited From
the Orange. Groves of South
ern California.
From our Lady Correspondent:

from our Lady correspondent.
RIVERSIDE, Gala, April ., 1883.
Editor MINER:
AS We sit on the verandas these
lovely April days, some busy with
fancy work or reading, while others
swing lazily>in hammocks, content to
do nothing but take sun baths and
drink in healthful inspiration
of the spice-laden and balsamic
air from pepper and eucalyptus tree,
and get. well; my thoughts will
wander to home and friends among
the mountains, wondering if even
yet they are not lingering lovingly
near the fire. BY far the greater
number. Of winter days are just as
warm as these, but these spring days
delight the vision with such lovely
tints and shades in tree and shrub
and blossom. Out of curiosity yes
terday I counted the different trees
and shrubs, fruit and ornamental,
growing in these grounds. Not as
a specimen, for of course they make
no pretentions to horticulture at a
hotel-but because it was accessible
and found they numbered twenty
eight. Southern California and its
climate has been written ur SO much,
SO many inflated and untruthful
statements have been made
for advertising purposes, that
one hesitates to say anything about
it. But since the Rev. T. X. Beecher,
who has been our vis d-vis at table
for a fortnight, has said so many nice
things about Riverside in the Chica-
60 Advance, I have thought it might
be a theme worthy of interest to
some of the readers of the MINER.
The towns of Riverside and Airing
ton are laid out in lots of two and
one-half, five, ten and twenty acres,
surrounded by walks, flanked on
either side with hedge or row of
trees of cypress, palm, pepper, olive
or eucalyptus-all evergreen-and
covered with a great variety of fruit
and ornamental trees and flowers. Ar
lington across the arroya-Spanish for
ravine-is much the prettier place;
having more wealth and cultivation,
and older groves and finer
drives. Magnolia aHenue is a double
drive of seven miles with four or five
miles nicely cultivated; having five
of trees, something like, Put
much prettier than the Alameda at
San Jose. One can bowl along wide,
s,uooth avenues, fringed on either
side with the graceful, fern-like pep
per tree, through miles and miles of
clean kept orange groves and vine
while the senses are RECALLED by
the fragrance and beauty of the
orange blossoms, and the eye falls
restfully on the many shades in green
the dark rich color of the orange
leaf, the silvery sage green of the
olive. the blue green of the century
plant and eucalyptus, and the paler
tints of tender fig, walnut and will
low; with here and there a belated
nectarine, almond or apricot,
spots of color in pink, conch-
she'll, cream or white.
Miss Frances E. Willard, the pres
ident of the w. C. T. u. for the Uni
ted States has just paid us a visit
and delighted the eyes as we'll as the
hearts and intellects of the many
who were present at the reception
and lecture. OF course California,
like all other countries, has two sides.
I have dwelt only on the pleasant in
letter. There is another in
I think Montana surpasses
her.