uring the canvas many notes were made of special growths, which, it was thought, might interest the readers of the Special Edition. There were doubtless hundreds of others, quite as worthy of mention, which escaped notice, or to which attention was not called.

A royal rose bush is the Maréchal Niel growing on the premises of A.J. Whitney, corner of Brookside avenue and Center street. Close to the ground the trunk was 35 inches in circumference, which divides into several branches a few inches above. Two branches, at the points of division, were 14 inches in circumference and two others 6 inches. The bush spreads, with its hundreds of branches, about 70 feet , around two sides of a porch, mounts to and covers the top and was being trained up the sides of the house. Three thousand was a very conservative estimate of the number of buds and blossoms on this one bush, when the above measurements were taken in April.

Rose hedges are not uncommon. On the east end of the block bounded by East State and East streets and park avenue there are 820 feet of this edges, scores of varieties have been used to heighten the effect. A beautiful hedge was also found in front of J.H. Fisher's grounds on Crescent avenue.

A very large and fine Wilber rose bush covers the entire front of C.H. Lienau's residence, on Brookside avenue. At Dr. Riggs' place, on Terrace avenue, is an unusually large specimen of "the Cloth of Gold." The "Seven Sisters" is represented by a magnificent bush at the Terrace Villa, the residence of A. G. Hubbard. Seventy varieties are grown by Miss R. E. Motte, Vine street. On Captain Wm. G. Moore's place, Cajon street, 150 varieties can be seen, some of the climbing ones reaching the highest point of the roof of a two-story house.

The roses and vines which climb to the peaks of the gables and cover the sides of the residence of Curtis Wells, corner of Center street and Highland avenue, have long been admired by citizens and tourists. Hundreds of "snap shots: of this place have been taken and many of them published. The picture on page 59 was taken by Rev. J. H. Williams, to whom THE FACTS is indebted for the loan of his negative.

A unique and pretty hedge was found on Hugh Marshall's grounds, Brookside avenue. The oval in front of his residence is surrounded by pomegranates, deftly trained and neatly trimmed so as not to attain their usual tree height and size.

Owing to the rapidity of growth of the Eucalyptus, several groves of this tree have been planted in the city. The largest grove, of 20,000 trees, was found on the Edgewood Ranch, belonging to H. H. Ford. A picture of the "Driveway" along this grove can be found on page 52. A. S. Auchincloss has 9,000 in one place, and T. E. N. Eaton 3,000 on the North Side.

Odd productions are those of T. E. N. Eaton and Dr. E. T. Painter. The former has a flourishing loquat growing on the one side of a quince. The latter can show a tree one-half orange and one-half lemon, producing perfect fruit of each variety.

The capabilities of the soil and climate of this valley for the propagation of almost every variety of vegetation will be tested, if the occasional specimens already planted out and growing are any indication of what will be tried in the future. Camphor and cork trees were found in several places. G. G. Kennard and Dr. Payton have specimens of the blackberry tress. The cherimoya, or custard apple, is growing on the places of C. C. Goodale, Rev. J. Frederic Dutton and J. F. Nettleton. The Russian plum, conspicuous on account of its dark foliage, has a very fine representative at I.N. Hoag's. George Goad has two Cape Natal (South Africa) plums, imported by John Carson. Kumquats were found at the residences of Silas Williams, Capt. J.P. Cottrel, Rev. Dutton and F. M. Hunt; a Washington plum at F. Benningsdorf's; citrons at Judge Otis' and Colonel Lawton's; pecans at Mrs. E. W. Wilmot's and A. E. Sterling's; a black walnut at Dr. Blythe's; Italian chestnuts at W. D. Clark's; an ailanthus, a jacaranda, 35 feet high, and two varieties of araucaria at F. P. Meserve's.

No attempt was made to list the hundred's of rare specimens in Canyon Crest Park.

A. A. Henry has growing on his place, corner of East street and Sylvan Boulevard, an orange tree about five years old which was reaised from a seed found in a navel orange. It has made fine growth, but has never shown any sing of blossoming. He has also an Alva Cotta, a fruit tree native in Yucatan and Southern Mexico. In those countries it sheds its leaves annually, but this tree has not done so during its three years' life in Redlands.

Japanese wineberries, new to this section, have been planted out by C. Frechette, C. C. Goodale and Dr. William M. Smith. W. H. Ellsworth has 300 loganberry plants.

An interesting example of the vitality of the century plant was found on the premises of Simeon Cook. Early in January the plant, which was set out in 1883, was uprooted , because of its obstruction of the driveway, tumbled over and rolled several feet distant. All the roots remained exposed to the air and sun, and none of them reached the ground. Nevertheless in April it began to grow a blossom stem, which soon turned a right angle to the prone mother plant and rapidly stretched upward. In a few weeks the stem reached a height of over twenty feet and blossomed out.

As a proof of the capabilities of the soil and adaptability of the climate of Redlands for the propagation of frits, flowers, etc. there is hereby given the following enumeration of trees, plants and flowers now growing on the residence lot 60 x 160 feet, on which are situated the residence, barn and outbuildings shown on this page. The buildings, driveway, sidewalk, etc., occupy over one-half of the space. The trees are now five years old and well laden with fruit, but as a matter of course they stand too thickly, and many of them will be removed next year. On this lot there are 122 rose bushes, 28 climbing rose vines, a hedge of calla lilies on one side, ivy and smilax vines, 34 orange trees, 5 lemon trees, 4 pomelo trees, a large papyrus plant and several grapevines on an arbor 35 feet long and 8 feet wide.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 95.)