House Cf Garden 
FROM THE TERRACE A CALIFORNIA HOME 
the end of the 
avenue at a point 
where low ivy 
supersedes the 
orange trees as a 
border to the 
drive. The lawn 
is pleasantly con¬ 
fined at one end 
by a grove of 
live-oaks; and 
along the rest of 
its boundary are 
mixed shrubbery 
and trained vines, 
suitably dividing 
the regularly 
planted orchards 
from the freer out¬ 
look commanded 
by the house. 
The old Cali¬ 
fornia missions the plan a California home 
have plainly been 
the starting point 
of the architec¬ 
tural design. 
Those Mexican 
pioneers who 
built in California 
nearly a century 
and a half ago 
have left their 
impress on the 
land, even though 
many of their 
picturesque mo¬ 
nastic establish¬ 
ments have now 
crumbled to un¬ 
recognizable ruin. 
The quiet sim¬ 
plicity of those 
buildings, their 
low elevations, 
helped by the low 
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