Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 84
THE DESERT HAS EVEN A PRIMROSE where I live, would be the incense-bush.After a winter of good rains (I mean what wecall good rains on the desert, where three orfour inches is the average), you would seethe bare brown mountain-sides suddenly turn golden with the blooming of countless num-bers of… … AN INDIAN WATER-JAR MAKES A GOOD VASE little bodies through long months of rainless,blistering heat is a mystery of mysteries.The maxim of the incense-bush is, literally,Never say die. If there were a Victoria Crossor Congressional Medal for grit and hanging-on power in the vegetable world, this is…
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