Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 85
WILD CENTURY-PLANTS There is a queer plant which, on accountof its thorniness, is often wrongly taken for akind of cactus, and which contributes one,of the finest entries to the Great SpringDesert Flower Show. This is the candle-wood, or ocotillo (pronounced oc-o-tee-o),a wildlooking thing… … THE AUTHORS TENT AMONG THE OCOTILLOS [May sort of plume made up of a score or two ofbrilliant scarlet blossoms. Of all my desertcamps, I think the most fascinating havebeen those when my little tent was pitchedin a thicket of these very characteristicplants. Usually to be found in the…
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