Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-13
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP.
tBY JAMES FAULK.
Passing Through Pretty Pasadena.

twas 10 TINS sectlon tnat we IlrSt
began to see palm trees, and that Of
the most picturesque type. being
kept well trimmed and shaped by
the best florist art. Usually they
also had rambler roses in pink or
red Or some other types of the num-
erous running flowers for which
Cahforniais famous, dotting their
green boughs and ravishing the eye
with its delightful effect One of
the hymns which we like to sing
when thinking of the other world
speaks of the "Amarantheum
bonghs' and these lovely palms with
their gay-colored tloweer decking
reminds US of that as near as anv
thing we have seen 10 earth These
palms were sometimes placed in
rows down streets, Others decorative
ly in the yards of beautiful dwellings,
of the esthetic rich. OF coarse in
such lawns they but formed the main
silhoutte for much flowery beauty,
AS towns fitted by our car window
we would turn again to view the
wonderful fruit groves lining the
railroad right Of way on either side
for mile, after mile and here anoth-
err thing attracts our attention. Its
the rows of tall orderly arranged
windshield and shade trees in the
poplar and camphor species which
are to be seen on the sides of these
orange, lemon and grapefruit grow
es. The poplar grows to great
high and looks pretty 10 its slick bark
and tallness. In ONE places there are
automobile drlveways between the
orange grove properties. where the
people can ride in almost continuous
shade and where the auto trucks
can pass unimpeded with its groan-
ing loads OF fruit to the railroad sta
tion or factories. We passed some
large packing-houses where the or
anges are Grated to go on their long
or short destinations as the case NAV
be, and we see some crates identl-
cally like those which comes TO our
town, even including the rubber
stamp mark In large type of the
fruit growers association which
guarantees the standardization of
the fruit which they enclose. We
read some where an authoritive ar
ticle about solid trains moving out
of this section laden with such when
during the height of the harvest
season and the immense amount of
it which we see hanging from trees
proclaims the ready possibility OF
such if not more needed means for it's
disposition.
A few minutes before rolling into
Pasadena we passed the Ostrich
farm the fame of which has reached
all over the United States accosnt
of it being unique american enter
prise and only of recent origin as it
has not been thought possible many
years to keep those big birds in a
land where tropical suns shine not.
But the venture has proven success
out there, and the fashion and wom-
en- magazines bear the tidings to
the feminine sex of america that
they can get their genuine america
raised ostrich plumes from this
place. To get ahead of the story a
little we will add that we saw in the
exposition display of the plumes
and feathers from this ostrich
farm.
Pasadena is really a suburban
town of Los Angeles being only
twelve miles distant from it back
this way or west. 1t really surpas-
ses Los Angeles for its beauty, as
the palm trees, flowers and fruits
shine respondent and gorgeuos in
an array of colors and varieties hard
to attempt to describe. Near the
city the Sierra Madre Mountains
tower about a mile high adding to
the loneliness of the city OF some 49,
900 souls by the drives and villas
perched on his sides. Pasadena has
200 towns within its radius. In
fact you scarcely know when you
have left it, entered some other
town, village or city and left that in
it's turn and bumped into another