The Resources of California: Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography, Climate, Commerce, Etc., Etc., and the Past and Future Development of the State |
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Page 431 - America; bounded on one side by the Pacific Ocean, and on the other by a high range of mountains...
Page 104 - The bulbous root contains a large quantity of saponine, and when rubbed in water makes a lather like soap, and is good for removing dirt. It was extensively used by the Indians and Spanish Californians previous to the American conquest. The Amole has a stalk four or five feet high, from which branches about eighteen inches long spring out. The branches are covered with buds, which open in the night, beginning at the root of the boughs, about four inches of a branch opening at a time. The next night...
Page 138 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Page 423 - Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles (Our Lady the Queen of the Angels...
Page 197 - ... as also those of the Atlantic States. This fact is significant of the remarkable adaptation of its climate and soil to the culture of the grape, and indicates that California will become the greatest wine country of the world. Mr. Hittel, in summing up its superiority...
Page 96 - Douglas spruce, (Abies doug. lasii) is a tree o£ very large size, growing to be three hundred feet high, and ten feet thick in the trunk. It is, as Dr. Newberry says, " one of the grandest of the group of giants which combine to form the forests of the West.
Page 105 - Clover," so named from a spherical burr, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, which it bears in clusters of three. It is found in all the settled parts of the State. Cattle do not like it when green, but after it dries the burrs fall upon the ground and are picked up by the cattle.
Page 101 - Abundant in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and coast valleys ; a low-spreading tree, or shrub ; grows about rocky ledges, in ravines, and on the banks of streams ; rarely exceeds fifteen feet in height ; has a hemispherical shape, very dense foliage, rising from the ground in a globular form ; five leaves grow together on one stem ; is among the first to open of the deciduous trees of California. This tree bears heavy clusters of fragrant blossoms from early spring till late in the summer. The fruit...
Page 126 - The skin, hung up by the nose, measured 10 feet 2 inches, from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and was sold for seven shillings and sixpence in the common course of business.
Page 124 - The general length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail is about thirtyeight inches, and the height from the top of the shoulder to the sole of the foot, fourteen inches.