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Left Saugus at 4 P.M. & followed down the Santa Clara Valley to the west. The valley soon widens & there are extensive cottonwood & willow bottoms and great patches of Baccharis viminea and Pluchea borealis down as far as [[strikethrough]] Maribu [[/strikethrough]] Camulus. Here the valley begins to be cultivated & has five large groves of Orange trees full of fruit, also olives, pomegranites, English walnuts, pepper & Eucalyptus trees, peach & apricott.

At Piru is a large lemon grove of fine trees full of fruit.

The river bottoms are sandy & poor & mainly used for meadow or pasture land. The fruit zone is along the side slopes & foothills below the chaparral.

The valley is about the same to Fillmore, good orange, lemon & grapefruit groves & the other fruits that go between - apricotts, peaches, Grapes, olives, etc.
Also Corn, Alfalfa, squashes.. melons & vegetables.

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Left open so the species names can be edited easier. :) - GigglePop