. The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition . avages, extend-ing his usual greeting, Children, love God!The Indians allowed him to come within a fewfeet, and then riddled his body with threw his body into a little olive orchard,which is still standing and bearing fruit. Withinit today is a low wooden fence with a plain crosswhere sleeps the first Christian martyr of Cali-fornia. Down the valley stands the last of thepalm trees which Serra set
. The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition . avages, extend-ing his usual greeting, Children, love God!The Indians allowed him to come within a fewfeet, and then riddled his body with threw his body into a little olive orchard,which is still standing and bearing fruit. Withinit today is a low wooden fence with a plain crosswhere sleeps the first Christian martyr of Cali-fornia. Down the valley stands the last of thepalm trees which Serra set out, apparently goodfor many years to come. Almost in its shadesleep the Spanish soldiers who succumbed tothe long wait for the relief party. When Father Serra returned from a northernjourney, instead of being discouraged he set outwith accustomed zeal rebuilding the Missionand then went on again to the north, foundingmore missions along El Camino Real, the KingsHighway. He never returned. There is a great wealth of romance in historyof that sort and when one studies the history ofsouthern California, one finds that many finetraditions, the love of beauty, too, are a part of [10]. THE OUTER WALLS FROM THE PALM CAiJON THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND the old Spanish civilization. It was apparentlythe realization of that beauty, almost forgotten,which impelled the San Diego Exposition torevive in its architectural scheme not the con-ventional forms of classic traditional art souniversally used at expositions, but the typepeculiarly belonging to California and reachingback to the glorious period of its inception. Before allowing oneself the pleasure of his-torical analysis of the Spanish-Mexican style, afew more excursions into the field of the activitiesof the Spanish missionaries may be allowed,since a proper understanding of their own atmos-phere is so helpful in contemplating the beautyof the general character of the Exposition. Itshould be remembered that Father Serrasindomitable wi
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