SEMI-Tnoprc C.iJJFOJtyj I 
50 
SEMI-TROPIC 
CALIFORNIA 
AND 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURIST, 
Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the devel¬ 
opment of Southern California, 
Terms 91 ■50, per year, in advance, pottage prepaid. 
Addresi, CARTER & RICE, Los Angeles, Cal. 
uko. 'luYtP U 1 PrnL, '"*A* mfwninou, 
excel lei cion. The nweot vrinea, the Mus- 
cntel particularly, also all meted Ins ndmi- 
nition fro.n their richness and body. Ho 
ha,l no hesitation iu assuring hia host Hint 
if these wines were made known iu Ger- 
rnimy that empire would consume even 
gallon which Ilu> Sunny Slope vineyards 
could turn out. There would he no need 
of pressing i heir sale in the United States. 
The professor ordered n pipe ouch of Mr. 
Rose s wino find b.uridy, to lie shipped to 
his home j i Germany 
CIRCULATION 
8000 . 
Southern California embraces the seven 
smitliein counties of the State: Sun Diego. 
San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, 
Su-ita Barbara, Kern and San Luis Obispo. 
The city of Los Angeles being the me¬ 
tropolis of Southern California, ns well as 
its railroad center, it is but natural that 
people from the East, coming here to look 
nt the country, for homes; or as invalids, 
for health; tourists, for pleasure; or only 
to enjoy our mild climate, uu<l escape 
the rigorous winters of the north and 
cast, should cotne direct to this city. 
From here they can go to all part* of 
Southern California at n great saving of 
tunc and expense, AVu do not ignore the 
oilier cities and counties of Semi-Tropic 
California; on the contrary, we have been 
instrumental in having many visitors and 
hoi"e-scckers go to Santa Barbara, Han 
l.eiuardiuo and Sun Diego. We always 
talk Los Angeles, because it iu our tiOuio. 
Our paper receives its support largely 
from hereitisens, and besides, it is impow- 
bln to visit Southern California and not 
see Los Angelos. This is the fnmis the 
hub I’nrsoiiK consulting tlicir maps, as 
we did before coming hem. see limy can 
make, Lon Angelos cheaper ami quicker 
I Lull any other point in the southern part, 
of the Stale; that unen horn, they can 
visit all sections at their leisure ami eon- 
veuieuoo. Los Angeles was mu preference 
°* 'V should not han! stopped lmrir and 
yet we would insist that every one coming 
to Southern California slm.ild visit il„. 
other counties before selecting a 
u>„|, homo. Health seek,,, and pleasure 
seekera Sliould sm, all of 
Si ini-tropic California. 
OUR MONTHLY SERMON 
I K) the Lard working, industrious tnc- 
. chnnie or laborer, what can be mom 
pleasant, more gratifying, than to return 
nf er a hard day’s work is over to Ids, 
home, where his family anxiously await- I 
ing his return, and sit down under his ‘ 
own roof, and bn able to say to that, family 
for whom ho lives and for whom lie toils: 
“ This much of God’s acres do I own.” 1 
am not afraid that, when the quarter or I 
ye.,r pusses around, a surly, utisyinpiitbiz- 
ing landlord will come demanding liis 
rent; and if I have not been able to save 
so much, will turn us out to hunt uiiolber 
house, and again perhaps be subject to the 
sumo misfortune," 
it is the same with the buajncHH man 
and professional man. And yet, how few, 
comparatively speaking, secure for them- 
selves a home, although all will admit 
that., had they made the effort in time, or 
had they taken advantage of some partic¬ 
ular opportunity which they recollect, 
they might have lmd one. 
Had they not wasted their time and 
means, they too might be able to sit down 
under •‘theirown vine and fig free." Ami 
here lies Ihe Secret why so many aro with-1 
out homos of their own. Hundreds ofi 
people, had they been vigilant and can- 
fid in husbanding their means, might have 
bought, and paid for a comfortable home. 
We Bay, almost without effort. Hut be¬ 
cause then income was small, and m arly 
all of it wan used to provide for Heir 
families, or to keep up the ••stvlo” while 
Mingle, they thought the bulnm -0 t.OO 
small to bo worth saving, tm I were wait 
ing until they could by *01110 Kpeuulation. i 
or " at red k of good lurk," make a cudd.ii 
fortune, alld llilitl they would piOYldn „ 
home. But, alas! for them the fortune ivasi 
never made; and after old age had come, I 
Huy could look hack and mc. chance- lliov 
had lost Ibid they dispcioied with old' a 
portion of the luxuries and iiiiiu . 1 «e n u-. 
they indulged in. a liiunil could Imie been 
paid for many times over 
h.'nir- Illume 111'-' th in O'M' "'a btadr. 
'A I' lower from the Gold>n Laud" — rathe 
poetical title of a book published in Austria 
by Archduke Salvador, who passed the 
winter of 1870 in Southern California. Ho 
says, “to those inenrehof ,1 mild, health¬ 
ful climate, no country offers greater in¬ 
ducements to such aims; no country is so 
suitable in every respect to tin European 
emigrant ns Southern California; 1 laud 
which linden fertility of soil and ease of 
industrial development with h> nilhfulness 
of climate; a land where the handiness of 
winter aud the heat of summer are alike 
unknown." 
A GoiinRseovcr NT of the London Standard, 
in speaking of California, loiys: 
" Some JiLtle time since, samples of Cali¬ 
fornia wiin .s were forwarded for my opin¬ 
ion. The red was the burgundy type, 
and in the tasting of which I t« g«n to 
think I had never lief ore known what wine 
was. Jt» color was the rirbe-t ruby, its 
aroma ninm inviting, with a flavor and fare¬ 
well which the taste of the tuusd delicate 
fruit would leave behind. 
“ The white wines, both *ilry’and that 
made from the richer grape, were .quailv 
champagne, not n dry w ine, but 
delieato and sweet us nature mode it, sur¬ 
passed in point of tlavor any of the wines 
tor which our good friends in France make 
ns pay ho dourly Let us improve and re¬ 
fine our palates, give over drinking fortified 
w ines, and tako only the pure juice of the 
grape." 
Tar Vsnwal Alt 1 rmo of the Southern 
California Hortinulturul Society will la 
lu ld a! the E'avilicm on Saturday, April 10. 
I 8 S 0 , at 11 o clock 1. >1., for the election of 
officers. A full atti-ndauce is requested, 
N. 0. Cartk*. 
Acting Sec. 
EASTERN READER, 
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I'nd. H nan A. GUfti Wii.nn mj, of (i 0 , 
many, alter testing veiy critically tin. wince 1 
aud brembeaof the apneiuu* coIIiiih of Mr. 
L -I. Hobo, at Sunny Hli.j.o, thin 0 „„ n |.y, 
pronounce., them superior to those .,r Ui„ 
own co,II,Hy. He says Mr. Hose'S Wane 
idbawusnot only tlu.. <tuul, hut was, in ),,,, 
opinion. the .si,p«r, or of any wine mail. 1,1 
be German Empire, II,. spoke will, UH . 
tbuhiasm of its bouquet, flavor and g. ncral j 
Li Sr sol.. -av« “ l.o \ ugebn iH a bon 11 
tifal-ily of Sonllmin Caliluinia. roulam 
ing IH.CMJO inhabitiuiU In Ihe U v i, 
portion of lln.i city a great many Sonora- 
luhs reside,. Tliecity has 1" come fniuoiiM 
for its aliunde and -i-nii tropical pioiliic 
lions It will probably have a biillimt 
future, an in a short, tun. til A rUIv will 
prohubly tm divided, and I Ang.de < 
mad" tie- capital of the new Stale, whc. 
Hu tn will be schools and ■ • 11«-• -. 1 .1 d> 
lihlied there ns iu Oakland, lie popul.-i 
lion in of a high elm 1 aid. r." 
Itefiilnr prtc».... .... . #iMn> 
S-iit to nliy 1-iM Kns ».tdn— tm- _.... 1 ,10 
If you want to know about California, 
j and have a correct map of the State, now 
111 your ohmic*. This offer is good only 
1 until I line Send p d ,dtic.' order, cm 
rent" or st.iinp*, give uarin of p M si oflie, 
^ county ami «lute 
Aikiro'i Cvrti. a \ He r 
Lo* Angelo., t'al 
1 ’ur(?*i.ih,«mi llohiK 11 1, .r,i f,. r U i.h 
is truly a ' grape loimla 1; an I. in een- 
imetiou with our grape numb, r, sbould L? 
in the tm lids of <», ty man who is oiig.^.d 
• 11 v inionltmc. 
L I- H*o< of San (i ibriil paid t" one 
ptlnOU tills \. f„ r (J,p u , K j I(rK 
grown on onv hundred oviea of land. 
