House is Garden 
The low walls are covered with a nearly 
white rough stucco made to look as 
much as possible like adobe, the material 
of which the missions were built. The 
roofs are of the so-called “ Mexican ” 
terra-cotta tile, of a bright red color. The 
principal feature of the front of the house 
is a broad open corridor, one end of 
which is shaded by two redwood trees, 
chicken yard. Immediately to the west 
of the house, is a space enclosed upon 
the north by a recently constructed pergola 
and also by a single screen wall which 
projects from the house and contains the 
garden gate—an entrance to the pergola. 
In the topping of this wall the curbed 
gable at San Luis Rey Mission has been 
reproduced. At the farther end of the 
THE NORTH END OF THE CORRIDOR 
A CALIFORNIA HOME 
planted in 1883 ,—the sequoia sempervirens. 
In an interior view of the corridor on this 
page is a wall lantern from the mission of 
La Purissima near Santa Barbara. On the 
opposite page, the other end of the corridor 
is shown ; where, beside a beautiful low door¬ 
way, stands the papyrus antiquorum. 
The live-oak grove penetrated by a drive 
over which an ivy arch has been reared 
continues to the southwest of the house 
and screens the stables, the cowyard and 
pergola is the greenhouse before which a 
walk turns leftward to an old-fashioned 
garden. Lilies and lotus thrive in a 
water-garden beyond the greenhouse. Sur¬ 
rounding all are orchards of apricots and 
prunes—the latter that sweet French variety 
which dries perfectly and is as fine as can be 
found anywhere. The whole scene is one 
of blooming verdure from which the bright 
red roofs of the house appear against a sky 
of wondrous blue. 
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