. The California horticulturist and floral magazine. Fruit-culture; Gardening. THE. AND FLORAL MAGAZINE. Vol. IK. MAKCH, 1873. 3. THE RURAL HOMES OF CALIFORNIA. BY MBS. E. S. CABB. Millbbae, the Some, of D. 0. Mills, Esq., President of the Bank of California. No adequate idea of Millbrae can be obtained from a single picture. The estate is so large; so much of its beauty is bidden in the sheltering hills and along wild, wooded cafions; so many works of art and of taste have been gathered to adorn this truly noble and attractive residence; as to require a series of pictures for its full il
. The California horticulturist and floral magazine. Fruit-culture; Gardening. THE. AND FLORAL MAGAZINE. Vol. IK. MAKCH, 1873. 3. THE RURAL HOMES OF CALIFORNIA. BY MBS. E. S. CABB. Millbbae, the Some, of D. 0. Mills, Esq., President of the Bank of California. No adequate idea of Millbrae can be obtained from a single picture. The estate is so large; so much of its beauty is bidden in the sheltering hills and along wild, wooded cafions; so many works of art and of taste have been gathered to adorn this truly noble and attractive residence; as to require a series of pictures for its full illustration. The development of its natural advantages will require more than one life-time for its accomplishment; but we hope to show how wisely the work has been planned, and with what careful and loving study of many beautiful arts its finishing proceeds. Millbrae, covering 3,000 acres, and the adjoining Easton estate containing 3,000 more, belonging to another member of the family, is farmed as one property. It was originally a part of the Burri- Burri Rancho, and was purchased from General "Wilson sixteen years ago. The San Jose Bailroad cuts across the eastern portion, behind which the Sierra Moreno rises in a series of irreg- ular benches to an altitude of nearly Vol. m.—10. three thousand feet. Every variety of landscape, from wild, rugged gorges, clothed with the Douglass Fir and Madrofia, to those of softest pastoral beauty, may be enjoyed within its boundaries—mountain stream and loch, the gentle curves of San Bruno, the wider sweep of the great bay with Dia- blo in the distance, and the ocean itself. With all this diversity of surface, there is scarcely an acre of its land not valuable for agricultural purposes. San Mateo is one of the great dairying counties of the State, and Millbrae is its great milk-dairy. The fogs which con- dense on those uplifted pastures keep them green for months after the valleys are withered and sere; and during the driest period
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