Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 429
asthey traverse the sands of the desert. One of the wonderful features of the plant isits tenacity to life and its power to exist whererain seldom or never falls, and where there isneither dew nor fogs to bring it moisture fromabove. It thrives where almost any other plantwould die of thirst and… … SHOWING THE MANNER IN WHICH OCOTILLA IS PLASTERED IN THE WALLS OF A HUT.Photograph by C. C. Pierce, Los Angeles. no vegetation other than this, and were it not for houses are one-room affairs. Several of the oco-an occasional cluster of these plants fires and tilla poles are set in the ground in an…
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