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bloom like the rose. What opportunities for landscape
artists I
Transformations and suburban decorations pay even
property-holders. If there's a praiseworthy mania, it is the
laying out of beautiful gardens, noble avenues, and mammoth
parks. Inspired we feel to preach a sermon to the citizens
of California, upon the importance of putting shade-trees
around their houses, and books into them. Home presupposes
a library, a cabinet, a
conservatory, an orchard, and a
grove with weird, winding paths for walking and meditation.
" Who loves a library, still his Eden keeps ;
Perennial pleasures plants-, and wholesome harvests reaps."
How easily the interior towns of this thrifty State might
be made to rival the villages in the Atlantic States, by putting
out ornamental shrubbery ! In a hot, dusty summer's
day, what is more inviting than the cooling shadows of
graceful evergreens, or the serried lines of maples and elms
that interlace and arch public highways ? And then, why
not plant fruit-trees all along the wayside ? Why not have
the gardens of the Hesperides in our midst to-day? Why
not have a heaven on earth, with the divine will fully done ?
When half-dreaming of h-eaven, with its homes of love,
dreaming of the spirit-gardens that hang and float in ether
spaces above us, our brain throbs and brims in ecstasy.
THE SAN FRANCISCANS.
Old heads guide the feet that tread this new city.
Enterprise
is the password, victory the psalm. Enthusiasm anywhere
is existence, and earnestness its own great reward.
Financially Cahfornian cups run over. This is the trouble,
— the material overriding the spiritual.
The two themes- of excitement just now are continental
railways and Arizona diamond-fields. Reality or sham diamond
stocks sell readily ; and emigrants, vying with miners,
are hurrying along the trails of the troublesome Apaches.