The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-18
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

Riverside the Beauty of Magnolia Avenue.
Along Magnolia avenue and every
where else in Southern California you
1t is not only a beautiful evergreen
but is also rapid grower and its pos
Utilities are only limited by the taste
and ingenuity of its owner. A hedge
if kept sheared will soon thicken and
become a solid mass of beautiful green.
You meet it in every imaginable varie-
ty from the plain square massive green
wall to the more fantastic forms, one
piece of property may have a plain
square hedge four feet high along the
side walk, across the avenue you Will
see another hedge beginning with a
heavy square column and at regular
intervals the square columns rise many
feet above the hedge at the gateway an
immence square pillar of green stands
ten feet above the walk on each side.
next you meet a round pattern. The
hedge is half round on top. The col
ums at the gateway are round, all
along the walk of 200 feet from the
street to the veranda of the residence
there are tall round columns on either
hand. Next. ball show, great green
balls appear to balance on top OF the
hedge at the corners, at each side OF
the entrance and a row of balls along
the walk and half circle of them
around the house. The man across
the way mixes the two styles, he has
a square hedge. square columns and
balls sat on top of the columns. But
of all the results obtained with this
evergreen the great massive arches are
perhaps the most striking. owing to
their size 1t will puzzle you at first.
The explanation is easy enough. The
trees on each side of the gateway are
kept sheared in the right direction un-
til they unite overhead and thicken to
solid mass.
The beauty of the cypress hedges are
only in keeping with the display Of
flowers within the grounds. There
lies, masses of GeraniumS and Tea TO
ses and a hundred flowers that are
beautiful strangers to the tourist.
At times when there is break IN the
dense foliage you may raise your eyes
from the semi-tropical scenes around
you and look at wild rugged noun
tain range capped with snow. Every
where you see the corner stone OF ell
| this beauty and wealth, water is run
fumes and in silent canals that re-
feet the overhanging foliage.
Here if now where else in the world
| the street car viii travel to fast, you
| will do better to take livery rig and
be free to stop and enjoy the things
| that most attract your fancy, you will
enjoy drive along Indiana and Cali
tornia avenues no less than along Mag
nolia.
| Flowers are natures precious gifi
and are always priced by the ladies IN
any country, wherever water Is pIenss-
full. In California the passion can Be-
gratiiied to an extent unheard of in the
| North and East. / used to know {
i lady in Kansas who struggled with
frost and drouth and wind and Weath.
er for years for scant reward, I mel
her UNEXPECTEDLY in Santa Anna whers
she has a home amid bewilderinG
variety of flowers. / was always {
: flower friend you know, she said.
love Kansas and the people there, bu
am 50 fond of flowers and can gratif,
my passion here in way that neve
could anywhere else.
There are few things IN Southera
California that are not SO heavenly 3
the great display Of flowers, some o
them will be mentioned later on. In tn
mean time do not infer that G countr.
. of flowers is necessarily the abode {
angles. QU1P.