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[[underline]]July 18. To Santa Ana[[/underline]].

[[underline]]July 20[[/underline]]- Drove up Santiago canyon to mouth of Silverado Canyon about 1000 feet and some 15 miles east of Santa ana. Drove through miles of beautiful bearing orange & lemon groves with enough eucalyptus trees along the woods to furnish fire wood for the ranches. The whole valley to Orange & beyond & to the foot hills is laid off in squares & trees & fruit trees.

There are numerous fields of english walnuts, some grapes and out on the foothills olive orchards.

Palms, of many kinds, and pepper trees are numerous and pomegranits, loquats, pears & apricotts are raised.

Over the valley there is scarcely a native plant left, but Eumsicarpa setigera, Croton californica, Madia elegans, Grendelia & other weeds fill the waste places. Along the foothills cactus is abundant, mainly the 3 kinds of prickley pear and a few O. bernardina. Hosackia glabra, Artimisia californica & Eriogonum fasciculatum & white sage (Romania stachyoides) grow on the foothills.