HOUSES HIDDEN BY PALM TREES

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The prevailing color is white cji cream varied with blue and pink with led or green tiled roofs the favored ma terial is stucco which docs not reem to crack in that climate as it does in the hast. Many of the walks leading to the linifes were bordered with geraniums toe hushes climb valiantly up wall and trellis but because of the lanuary freeze Califor nia is sadly lacking in roses this year. The same frost that swatted the citrus crop killed the posies Down at Santa Ana 1 heard of an outdoor fete in which artifi cial flowers had to be used. That is the extreme if desolation in the land of sun shine and flowers.

We passed Swiss chalets gloritied flat roofed Aztec dobes Knglish cottages Nor man castles Mesopotamian mosiiues all.