Animals and birds died, trees were blasted and burned, and gardens ruined.

But that was most "unusual." Flannels are worn the year round.

Average of rain, seventeen inches.
There are sixty-one mineral and medicinal springs in California that are already famous.

Here we can take hot sulphur baths, and drink the nauseous water that is said to cure almost all diseases.
Farming is comparatively easy.

But grapevines are smitten by a mysterious disease called "cellular degeneration," and phylloxera; a black scale that injures orange and olive, and a white scale that is worse.