Photograph from Dewitt Hutclrings 



MAGNOLIA AVENUE: RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 



Riverside is known as the "orange capital," for from it are shipped more oranges than 

 from any other distributing center in the world — 5,000 carloads of oranges each year. Here 

 were planted, nearly fifty years ago, the two navel orange trees, imported from Brazil, from 

 which are descended all the seedless oranges of California. 



and the King rivers, which contain scores 

 of waterfalls and roaring streams, any- 

 one of which in Europe would draw 

 many thousands of visitors annually. 

 Many of the big yellow and red pines, of 

 the juniper and cedar, eclipse the trees 

 of Switzerland as completely as these 

 pines are eclipsed by the giant redwoods. 

 And then, as to birds and flowers, the 

 High Sierra so excel the Alps that there 

 is no comparison. Never will the writer 

 forget the melodies of the birds and the 

 luxuriance of the meadows passed in the 

 marches from Redwood Meadow to Min- 

 eral King, and then up over Franklin 

 Pass ; the fields of blue, red, yellow, 

 orange, white, and purple flowers, all 

 graceful and fragrant, or the divine dig- 

 nity of the great Siberian Plateau, nearly 

 1 1 ,000 feet above the sea, and yet car- 



peted from end to end with blue lupine 

 and tiny flowers. 



From the educational point of view, 

 the High Sierra so surpass the Alps that 

 again no comparison can be made. In 

 one day's ascent we observed fauna and 

 flora to see the equivalent of which on 

 the Atlantic coast we would have to make 

 a journey of perhaps 1,500 miles. When 

 we started in the morning we were hear- 

 ing birds that correspond to the latitude 

 of Charleston, S. C. ; in a few hours we 

 had traveled northward to Newfound- 

 land and Labrador, and then descended 

 to camp amid feathered friends whose 

 counterparts are found around the 

 writer's farm near Washington, D. C. 

 A day later we ascended Mt. Whitney, 

 the highest peak in the United States, and 

 had a glimpse of birds of the Arctic Zone. 



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