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A woman living on a ranch 7 miles south of Santa Ana and somewhat higher up on the foothills says she has kept tomato and chili plants over winter for four years before they were killed by frost. As they are killed by the slightest frost this is a significant fact.

She also says sweet potatoes & peanuts are extensively raised on the dry, unirrigated uplands, also beans, lima, navy & blackeyed. We saw miles of beanfields

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[[underline]]June 21. Santa Ana to Newport.[[/underline]]

Sunday afternoon after finishing reports & maps & plant lists we took train down to Newport on the coast. After passing the fruit ranches we came through great fields of beans and grain, wheat, oats, barley & corn, then over wild oat and grass lands to the shore. There are some marshes & ponds by the way & a lot of little waders & some stilts at the ponds. The soil is sandy toward the shore & all tracked up with Perodipus & other little tracks.

There is little vegetation of native species, but turkey mullen madia & grindelia suggest Lower Sonoran. Opuntia occidentalis grows on the sides of gulches near the coast. The usual beach plants are here.

The San Joaquin hills to the south are covered with mainly wild oats & mustard, but patches of low chaparral appear to be of Artemisia californica & Eriogonum fasciculatum, neither of which mark a zone.