SEMI-TUOl’lC CA LIFonS 1 A. 
on the outskirts of the principal settlements, 
have to contend with arc the rabbit*. 
These mischievous little animals are v*-ry 
fond of the tender shoots of the vine, 
and speedily destroy a young vineyard. 
Unquestionably the most effective rem 
edy for this evil is a well con structed 
lath or shako fence. The expense of this 
plan is considerable and lias deterred 
many from putting out vineyards. Dr. 
M. S. Jones, of Santa Ann, has another 
metliod which, although it may be knm 
to many wf our renders, will do no harm 
relate. Tuking advantage of the fact that 
rabbits have a strong aversion to blood, h 
procures n quantity from the slaoghte 
houses, dilutes it, and thoroughly sprinkles 
his vineyard each month. The expense 
but trilling mid the result, In his cue, 
least, has been highly satisfactory. 
TtlAIlR OF BA ST A AffA. 
Tin; town nf Santa Ana commands tin- 
trade of a fertile country many miles in 
area. The merchant* are enterprising and 
liberal, and the continual influx of new 
comers and new building enterprises inau¬ 
gurated render trade good for the mercantile 
community and abundance of labor for 
mechanics. Wo do not hesitate to say that 
no community on the Pacific Coast offers 
greater advantages to new corners with 
some capital than Santa Ana. 
TUKTIJf. 
Tustin is, properly, a suburb of Santa 
Ana, and a very garden spot. Here the 
semi-tropical orchards have made aston¬ 
ishing progress during the past six years, 
and the fruit product of the Tustin settle¬ 
ment is already very large. Tustin has 
been especially blessed by this advent, 
during the past five years, of a wealthy and 
enterprising class of settlers who have 
constructed comfortable and, in many cases, 
elegant houses; planted the best varieties 
of trees and vines and given them the best 
care and cultivation. 
PRINCIPAL VARIKTIKS OF VBOIT. 
Tustin is especially adapted to the semi 
tropical fruits. Although the San Francisco 
market was overcrowded with sour and 
poor oranges last Spring, and the price, 
consequently, much lowered; the fruit raised 
in Tustin and the adjoining country was 
in good demand and commanded a fair 
price. The lemon and lime escaped, last 
Winter, the sharp frost* which visited the 
Upper portion of the county, and as the 
demand for these fruits is continually if- 
creasing all these tree* which 
bearing will, probably, find an improving 
market each year. 
rmt a it It a ix VINIM 
Is yearly increasing, each new comer nut 
ting out from twenty to forty aun t. Tin 
Muscat seems to lie the favorite, although 
all the leading varieties afu well represented. 
Raisin making is a great success in th> 
neighboring settlement of Orange, but w 
have not as yet heard of any experiment* in 
last l-'all, will remember Urn fine display nf | 
apples, pears, figs and other deciduous fruits 
made, fay the Tustin settlement; all were 
of the best quality and attracted much 
attention. A Cannery will be required, 
within the next five years, for the Tustin 
and Santa Ana settlements to consume the 
large fruit surplus which can thus be t-eon 
onncally shipped to all portions of th* 
world. 
IMrlOVlHMIS AT Tt'HTIK. 
The Tustin settlement has hsd an addi¬ 
tion of several families since the first of the 
year. Mr. S. Vaudcrlip haa purchased 
t wenty acres of Cm* fruit land and is or 
ing a large and handsome house, Mr. j 
Rico has just completed a $3000 boas*, 
we understand that another newcomer, Mr -1 "'i? * • 
Vandwmuelleii, will shortly build. A gen- . current* of the FVifir. r- 
llemau from Riverside is nlso building a ; " hatever humidity they t nt 
uttage and several other parlies are con-dispersed, tn.ivm* as 
tomplstiug extensive improvement*. 
TUB CITUL'B FAlU. 
That our tourism and visitors may better 
qipreciate the growth and improvement of 
lie Santa Ana country, thu Southern Cali¬ 
fornia Horticultural Society contemplate 
holding a citrus fair at Santa Ana next 
Spring. If sufficient encuurageuient 
in all countries, in all dims 
t*s, and in aU 
Now if the above theory U 
trns, no argu- 
mi-nt and no explanation 
re needed to 
show that its eomvr** must 
disperse* and dissipates. M 
us that the trade wind* of tl 
towards llte *.xtrA«v*# during 
vo true. Heat 
Old Salt*” tell 
* Fact He blow 
of the year correspond.ng U 
son. Kxcep* that for tw 
•rur dry ses- 
oos*r, they are 
sack day ilirrrttit toward* 
the 
ereion? Why, 
as the sun rise* ana heats tt| 
wil J* 
1 Colorado Desert, the air nvt 
region become* raritivd and 
■II tiiat vast 
ich 
Tustin. Wc havo heard of 
from mildew, and insect peat* on 
are thus far unknown. 
DHCIPU0V8 mu FIX. 
The visitors to the Horticult 
damage 
the grBpo 
wind- 
to fill. 
given to the project a 
r impetus will be 
which will 
currents, 
warm, t. frum the ocean to th* super¬ 
heated lands of lhn desert. 
All th* fac t* in the experience of all who 
live on this coast agree with ibis theory. 
We daily *•*, if we lake any notice nf the 
muter, that every morning in summer 
(or whilat the mm is nwrlli of the squa- 
, *ay fr< 
the 
given to horticultural pursuit*, wmeo win | j eierl 
add much to the development of the, ^ Btrnngvr and atrui 
raources uf lhe.o young uuj grouing 
tlemeuta. 
heat 
up the 
n»o and 
till was 
THE CAUSE OF CALIFORNIA'S WET AND 
DRY 8EA80N8. 
tur* differs very little from that t>f the 
ocean itaelf, because it comet directly from 
the ocean; and then, a* tlx* sun goes down 
the wind goes down with it, the sands of 
the deaert, cooling quickly (bein^ only 
superficially heated), after 
are intermitted, while the 
cool so quickly: and ax a 
bri-ere blows in the night 
to wards the ocean. 
One of the effects of th 
n does not 
lit often s 
i th« land 
i daily h 
Of course everybody is familiar with the 
hoim-.lv phenomenon uf the condensation of 
water at tho mouth of the tea-kettle spout, 
—the simple explanation uf which is that I (from a eold to a warm atm . 
the current of air, laden with moisture, I ^aiber up ali the fog (that w* would i>th«i 
passing from a Aid to u atmus- | wise be liable to have cnsUntlv, as w« ar 
phere, is chilled, and the humidity , lf . Br the o.eao), and also all the M 
or water, in attenuated solution that tt clouds and todiasipatw them, and thi 
carries is suddenly condensed fata aggre-1 that we have our charming cloudlas 
gated and visible drops. In other wur.U,! during our long California summere, 
invisible moisturw or vapor, by pawingwtiat i* mure lo tha point than men* senli 
from warm to .•*»/«/, becomes visible water. mentality, especially living as w* do \m i 
' breath in cold weather illustrates the latitude where the. 
°S 
And 
same phonutnenoti. 
A rover** current, i. from to 
uuirtit, pruilueM a contrary result, dissipat¬ 
ing instead of condensing the moisture. 
People talk about timber and cultivating 
thu land, and laying railroad track*, and 
cannonading, and what not, a.x being rain- 
inducer*; but the principle above referred 
to has morn to do in determining or gov 
erning the rain question than any and all 
tuber reason* put togetbrr. " httievsr th- 
cur ret i lx of the atmosphere carrying moist¬ 
ure tend towards a cold region from s 
warm one thu inevitable effect* will be to 
retard and chill and condense th* floating 
moisture, and if the humidity is great and 
the change of temperature sudden, t*> pre 
cipitate it in rain, or hail, or snow Herein, 
in a nut shell, is the whole theory of ram 
• portion th* year, 
head.— these mid- 
dineclly Slid oon- 
, b*tw« 
<■ nearly directly 
slanlly each day froi 
thu* invigorating instead uf del 
Our peculiar situation th is 
ocean and a desert, although it give* u* a 
long, dry summer, by the simple operation 
uf iis torsi laws, also giv** “* during all 
that long summer th* grateful, bracing 
breesvs that not only m*L* lW *euu Uop- 
ical heat of our locality tab table, hut they 
in fact help to make our climate •’»*• of the 
lineal, if «ol tho finest, i» i*w world. 
to winter, a» th* *uu recedes south el 
Una, it does not heat the desert so fieroeiy 
each day, and then w« sr* liable l*> have 
wind current* front other directurns,— !nun 
the warm south to a colder north, aud with 
them rains, as in other parts of tho world. 
