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19 SAN JOSE AND VICINITY. from Patagonia, the cedar from the Himalaya Mount ains and from Lebanon, charming varieties of cypress from Japan and China, and many from the Pacific coast. Here grows too, in all its grandeur, the beau tiful eucalyptus, and here the arching willows shade the sparkling fountain. Here a fair lady may gaze with delight at the beautiful Japanese arbors and hedges entwined with the fragrant honey-suckle, the jessamine, clematis and ivy. Mexico, too, has fur nished her pepper trees, with their graceful narrow leaved boughs to aid in the adornment of these lovely grounds. Seventeen varieties of the acacia, and fifteen of the eucalyptus grace this forest, besides many varieties of the pine, the cypress, the arbor vitae, the juniper, the palm, and the fir; also, the yew, the laurel, the native nntmeg, the bay, the madrona, the manzanita, the tamarack, the Washingtonia, and the New Zealand flax, have their share in forming this arborical host. Nor has the Monterey cypress, so grand in form, been left out of the ranks. A mag nolia planted in 1866 is now seventeen feet high, and has been blooming for two years. A century plant or agave planted in 1865 is now seven feet high, and as much in diameter. The avenue, one thousand feet long, planted three and a-half years ago, is, on an average, thirty-one feet bigh, and the trees eight to ten inches in diameter. An eucalyptus planted in 1865 is now sixteen inches in diameter. The rapidity of the growth of these
