The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-10-15
LETTER FROM RIVERSIDE, CAL,

AR- EDTDORc having pSeu hO"
ever two months in this garden OF
HsuS. where the trees which have
the golden apples are guarded and
tended BY the lovely nymphs known
Is ths Hesperides. assisted Of course
70 some extent by their fathers and
uncles and brothers, 1 must endeavor
70 comply with your request for a
le11s-.
Ishall not attempt TO give the his
asry Of this wonderful colony, nor to
sketch It's sstonishingly rapid growth,
nor even 70 call attention to the uni
form prosperity which, in spite of
sone experimental strivings after
the impracicsble, have marked its
unique Development, for nearly all
tins hiss been furnished in the adj
nirsble article on Riverside, pub
Eshed n the July Planters Monthly.
In order to behold Riverside in all
lis besuty 1t should be visited in
January, February or March, when
@he orange crop IS ripening, and the
visitor rides for many miles through
orange groves, whose deep, glossy
green foliage Is exouisitely set of,
and It's beauty enhanced by TIE con-
trsst with the brilliant golden fruit
winch loads down the trees so that
they would often be crushed to the
earth were they not artificially sup
ported At that season too the sur
rounding hills and plains which are
outside OF the irrigation limits are
bright with the freshest of green
grasses and gorgeous with flaming
acres OF myriad6nted wild flowers.
But through the summer and"until
the advent OF the fall rains. the hills
and al the unculivated part of the
country bears q parched and brown
aspect making the area occupied by
the veudsnt groves and Vineyards APP
Dezr ike an oasis II a desert.
Through the months of July,
August and September the weather
Is uniformly warm with occasional
dsys interspersed when the Their
n0neter II the shade on the south
SIDE OF the house viii show tenn
pe-Eture Of 10 deg. or lis deg. F.,
but o. account Of the great dryness
O the atmosphere, the sense of ply
sicsl discomfort Is no greater than at
the Islands when the mercury gets
I'd 70 80 deg. and mechanics and
lEbUrers 81 work out-of- doors suffer
No eEil effects from the exposure.
Sach thing as sunstroke Is almost
uDhezrd OF.
Southern California is a land of
glorious sunshine. Throughout the
greater part Of the year the king of
dsy unveiled by clouds or mists,
foods the earth with its benefcent
and health giving radiance, and
numberless are the instances where
sufferers from consumption, asthma,
rheumatism and other diseases, who
have come here from beyond the
Rocky Mountains, have found health
and comfort and length of days
Here are TO be found doctors and
lawyers, clergymen and teachers,
merchants and clerks, men repre-
senting every trade and profession,
who having abandoned the life for
winch they have been especially
trained. either from compulsion or
choice. have come TO this land of the
orange and the vine. and are here
enjoying life Of Arcadian comfort,
Tree from harassing cares and de-
pressing toll Many for the sake Of
the Out-of-door life and exercise per
form the whole, or q part of the light
and pleasant labor requisite to the
1nEiotaingnce Of their orchards and
vineyards while others supplement
the revenue afforded by their ranches
~ The gains Of business and profes-
slOnsl lie n town
SOIL AND IRRIGATION.
The sol OF Riverside is a decom-
posed granite, Of chocolate color,
and Of VARYING degrees of disintegrs
ton from that which Is as fine as the
best OF Hawaiian soils, although al
Ezvs containing a sufficient proper
non q grit TO scOur a pillow, to
Jual5rv which seems to be composed
largely OF sand The sandy soil is
naturally less fertile than the other,
hit / more easily cultivated, as 1t
does not bake after Irrigation as the
adobe sol l. inclined to do. To one
accustomed ID the careful and econ
ouical methods Of irrigation in vogue
81 the Islands. the system IN general
use here appears II the highest de
gree sxrETsEsnt and wssteful, and
Vel a. Il Is the result Of fifteen years
a the experience OF careful and IN
feIilrsrt men. one would hardly ven
rure 70 say that II Is not the best
ulan that could be devised under the
Circumstances. without first showing
l7v uract1cal demonstration the su-
oerlar7tv OF some other method.
irrigation usually begins about the
F7rsf OF AT11ll and Is continued until
rlDR frsf Of November During those
seven months i Is necessary TO repeat
4bs operation about every four or i've
weeks The ground Is prepared for
irrigation q day or two II advance
nv moving shallow burrows from the
hirhesr side Of the orchard to the
lowest unless the fab Is regarded as
bang 100 great, IN which case they