The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-18
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Among til. Flowers and Foli.g. Of H4snoli.

Among the Flowers and Foliage Of Magnolia Ava
ana In Riverside.
Take an early morning train from
San Bernardino, on the moter or Santa
Fe road, and a pleasant ride of nine
miles win take you among the orange
groves at Riverside. 1t is not necces-
sary to cross the continent to see fine
residences and beautiful homes. We
do not claim patent in that particu-
lar line and therefore will not tire the
reader with description of the residen-
ces In and around Riverside or else
where 1t may not be out of place to
remark that California has an archi-
lecture or Its own, ornamental mill
work commonly called ginger bread
work. Is frequently out of proportion
to the cost OF the balance of the house.
Whether you appreciate this feature of
California building OF not you can not
help admlring the broad roomy veran-
das. When you saunter around in
the evening and see the young people
| on the cool. shady Verandas. half hid
| den among roses and climbing vines
and the sweet perfume. of the orange
blossoms calls up sentimental foolish
ness in your mind, you will wish that
you were young again. You must not
fail to see Magnolia avenue. River
side can forgive you for being tender
foot, or running the country down. or
for not buying real estate, but should
you fail to take ride down Magnolia
avenue she would never again recog-
niZe you this side of Paradise
Take the Magnolia avenue street car
in the business part of the city, pay
twenty cents for a ride of fourteen
miles, and you will never regret the
time or money. For a time your car
dives down into deep ravines and up
tedious hills, but after a mile or two
you turn down an avenue which has no
equal for beauty on the North Ameri-
can continent. The driye is 100 feet
wide. In the center there is row of
pepper trees so close together that their
dropping limbs form green canopy of
shade for three and One-half miles
For the full distance the street car car
ries you under the pepper trees and
you watch the beautiful scenes Of love
ly nature on either side. On the left
the avenue is bordered by tall Eucal-
yptus trees, on the other side by grace
full Palms and great Aguaves, the bor-
der line trees may change from Palm
to Pepper, Eucalyptus, Aguaves, Cy-
press and other evergreen foliage, but
the center roy of Pepper trees always
shelter you with ample shade. There
is never an hour in the day or year that
carriage the full length of Magnolia
avenue under the rich green semi-trop.
ical foliage. When you look beyond
the avenue itself your eyes are Toasted
on beauty in every form of green and
gold, countless orange trees a mass Of
dark green leaf, of golden fruit anC
snow white bloom. Here we catch q
glimse of lonely cottage half out o.
sight amid a wilderness of trees anC
vines and flowers. Anon you havt
been following cypress hedge. 1t il
a square mass of green. With a grace
full curve it swings in from the street
and includes a great massive arch o
green over a carriage drive through
which you see a fine residence sur
rounded by Orange trees, flower bed
and walk with a border of Gala lii
lies. Here row of Weeping willoV
trees dabble long streamers of ligh
green IN the clear water of the littl
canal running beneath their shade
space compels me to leave you to inhal
/! the rich odor of the orange bloom an
to listen to the hum of bees and watc
the nervous flight of the hummin
birds among the flowers and foliage G
Magnolia avenue for a time. We wi
continue down the avenue later on.
QUILP.