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last petal pulled by some inquiring Marguerite." The fei-bosch, 

 another common and useful plant, has a pinkish-lilac flower, very 

 like that of the portulaca, and little flat, succulent leaves, looking 

 like miniature prickly-pear leaves without the prickles. A third 

 ostrich-bush plant is the brack-bosch, a taller and more graceful 



Some of the Best Kinds of Ostrich-bush. 1. Brack-bosch. 2. Ghanna. 3. Fei-bosch. 



plant than the others, with blue-green leaves, and blossoms con- 

 sisting of a spike of little greenish tufts. There are an endless va- 

 riety of other plants, among which there is hardly one that is not 

 good, nourishing food for the birds. " All are alike succulent and 

 full of salt, giving out a crisp, crackling sound as you walk over 

 them ; all have the same strange way of growing, each plant an 

 isolated patch by itself, just as the tufts of wool grow on the Hot- 



