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the vegetation of California and that of Palestine. 

 In both sections evergreen shrubs predominate. 

 The same forms of vegetation, often the same gen- 

 era, are found on Mount Tamalpais, California, and 

 on Mount Carmel, Palestine ; the maqui formation of 

 Palestine is to be compared to the chaparral and 

 chamiso of California ; and the forms of vegetation 

 of the Lebanon and the Hermon mountains are much 

 the same as those of the western slope of the 

 Sierras." It is not to be wondered at, then, that 

 the traveler in California sees in field and garden 

 many an introduced shrub and tree familiar to him 

 through the Scriptures. 



When the first soaking rains of winter have turned 

 to emerald the round, treeless lomas of our coast 

 country, the Professor likes to hitch up the family 

 horse to an ancient buckboard that he owns, and go 

 for a jog among the ranches that lie here and there 

 in the dips and on the crests of the foothills that 

 skirt our little city. Sometimes he invites me to 

 accompany him. Gladly we leave the macadam of 

 the urban boulevards, and with it the clang of elec- 

 tric cars, the braying horns and gasoline fumes of 

 whizzing motor-cars; pass the last of the million- 

 aires' palaces embowered in exotic vines and 

 flowers ; and turn into an old-fashioned country road. 

 Mocking birds are bubbling over with riotous song 



