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[[underline]]San Louis Obispo[[/underline]]

At Edna a rather beautiful little inland valley opens up, well sheltered from the sea winds by a sharp little range of mts. Its native plants are mainly live oaks & wild oats dense slopes of chapperal on some of the hills to the west & here & there a patch to the east. Grain & beans are the principal crops but eucalyptus groves are common as well as pine & cypress around the houses. At the far end of this valley San Louis Obispo lies in between the hills. In the town are small palms (fan & date like), pepper trees, olive, fig & peach, english walnut, apricot, a few good thrifty orange trees, grapes, & lots of eucalyptus, pines, sycamore & life oak.

Barley, oats, & wheat are the principal crops aside from fruit. 

From San Louis Obispo we climb rapidly to the crest of the coast range over high slopes of wild oats on south & east & chapperal on unprotected west slopes. There are live oaks & sycamores with the wild oats and the chapperal is Artemisia californica, Hitteromeles, blue sage, Admastoma[[?]]