The Newtown bee., 1892-12-02

casionally picked up and eaten by some chiiu or tender foot. A seedling at the end of my woodshed hangs full of green fruit, with some ripe oranges among them and some buds bursting into sweetest bloom.
 It IS curious thing about the orange that, while it turns yellow, it may still hang on the tree for months before fullv ripe and even at the end of year, may be sweet and juicy, though more often dry and pulpy at that age.
 The Mediterranean sweet is the latest Of the three principal oranges to ripen. for the season lasts from Christmas to July.
 THE ORANGE TREES look something like young hickories, though fuller of branches and leaves and. at 20 years, are sometimes 9 feet high and the heavily laden branches must be propped to sustain the burden of fruit. The ground beneath the trees is kept Dare of everything green, water being run once month through furrows from wooden troughs or from pipes laid under ground, as is now more generally done. replacing the ditches at first in use.
 Besides the orange, the raisin grape is raised on clumps of vines cut back like currant bushes. The raisins are now be- ing marketed at 3 1-2c a pound. It is predicted that in three years but few will grown here, as-they can be cured to bet ter purpose in the vicinity of Fresno, fogs and light showers adding to the cost and discomfort of curing here.
 The English walnut is grown, though not to as good advantage as near the the coast; the apricot, the peach, the pear, very few apples, the olive, a few figs and nearly all semi-tropic fruits. though this valley seems best suited to the orange, when it does not freeze. The city,
 FOR EVERYTHING IS A CITY that can build two brick blocks, has a business center of seven or eight blocks. on which are some very creditable brick of two and three stories, inter-
 
 some wooden buildings, gabling on the street in true western fashion and with high square, lettered sign across the end of the gable, concealing the shoulders of the roof.
 Every business peculiar to towns is crowded in here, from printing to dry goods and in such numerous compe- tition that there is about half loaf for the less successful. The city is lit by gas and electricity and has street cars drawn by mules. These cars are not heavily patronized, for nearly every one owns a horse.
 Outside the business quarter, the streets Ire lined by fan palms that sometimes | grow 20 feet tall; eucalyptus trees, that | grow 90 feet tall and shed bark and leaves | hat make fine kindlings; cypress trees, hat grow as tall as the eucalypti or are into hedges, towers, columns, md many fantastic shapes; pepper trees, something like willow in foliage, and low shedding their red berries gavillas pines; olives, with roses and geraniums ometimes blooming along the sidewalk have
 THIRTY VARIETIES OF ROSES, ome of them choice, all beautiful, but ot all fragrant, on my place, but roses 7ill not be in their prime until February, lough some bushes or trees are now eavily blossomed.
 We miss the grass here, for grassy lwns are even more difficult to keep up Ian at the Eastand can only be patiently nd laboriously nur sed into life. In fact riverside is but an oasis, placed in what as once desert and reverting to it's des- t state wherever water and care fails, hile, just outside, as I said in opening, le desert sands, relieved only by the Isty brown sage brush, press close to le water ditch and grim, brown noun ins, strewn with boulders, shut in the alley. You
 CROSS A TERRIBLE DESERT
 reach the coast and, on every hand. | e reminders here of what this once was ans energy has beaten back the desert Id, with patient, toilsome industry, bids the fort. Heaven grant that the rost King may not soon again render is energy and industry for naught by aling the battlements that only He who lies the clements can protect. Kindest gards to the old guard of BEE workers Id readers.-[R. H. Smith, Riverside, d., November Is, 1892.
 For pity's sake, don't growl and grum- e because you are troubled with indi ,stion. No good was ever effected byi arling and fretting. Be man (unless ,u happen to be woman), and take yer's sarsaparilla, which will relieve ,u, whether man or woman. Down in Pennsylvania the republican lsband of a democrat woman is now ashing the dishes each night as the re- It of an election bet. If Harrison had 3n, the wife would be shining her hus- .nds' shoes daily and attempting toi ave hin.-