ON THE REWARDS OF PATIENCE 



a sheet of bloom; and later, fields of hops here 

 and there, with the vineyards along the foothills, 

 make a most enchanting view. The floor of the 

 valley is like one great park dotted here and there 

 with giant oaks, each one of a different form; 

 here, perhaps, a hundred in a cluster, there a half 

 dozen, artistically grouped as if by a landscape 

 gardener. These are mostly white oak— though in 

 some parts of the valley there are numerous 

 patches of the black oak — and along the streams 

 the mountain live oak. 



In the distant hills north and east are a great 

 variety of evergreen and deciduous trees and 

 shrubs among the most common of which are the 

 following Conifers: the digger pine, sugar pine, 

 the yellow pine, the knob-cone pine. Coast red- 

 wood, incense cedar, MacNab cypress, Goven 

 cypress, and nutmeg pine. 



Some of the other evergreen and deciduous 

 trees growing in this immediate vicinity are : Ore- 

 gon maple, box elder, Oregon ash, California buck- 

 eye, white alder, red alder, tan-bark oak, white 

 oak, Pacific post oak, black oak, blue oak, maul 

 oak, mountain live oak, tree elder, bush elder, 

 Cottonwood, bayberry, madrona, golden chestnut. 

 Coast manzanita, and common manzanita. 



There are ornamental shrubs in profusion; 

 among others, the rose bay. Azalea, June berry, 



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