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[[strikethrough]]t [[/strikethrough]] more weeds (mustard, radish, eosolote thistle, etc) than native plants. An occasional bash of chevese grows on aules & elder along bottoms.
Vineyards are numerous & extensive, there are  large olive & walnut orchards, some orange groves, lots of Eucolyptus, rows of palms & pepper trees and great fields of grain (wheat, oats & barley). Towards Chatsworth the soil is better & more grain & pasture & hay are raised in the valley, but more olives, apricots, & orchards along the foothills.

The mountains north & south of Burbank are covered with chapperal, in places 
Ioise chinise[[?]] & sealterd[[?]] oates & Rhus & hetteroivebs[[?]]
   While the valley is extreme Lower Sonoran the Mts. are [[ intrieatily slashed?]] with Lower & Upper according to exposure & elevation.
   After passing Chatworth we go through several long tunnels under a rocky ridge & come out into an open valley at Savta Lausava where abundance of [[underline]]Querews lotrata[[/underline]] was first seen.  This valley is visibly open & bare of