INTERESTING FORMS OK DESERT PLANT LIKE. 



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YUCCA WHIPPLEI. 

 A section taken from a stalk of six thousand blossoms. 



beautiful are these rich blooms against 

 their natural backgrounds of somber 

 greys and browns. 



One of the most picturesque foliage 

 plants of the more desolate portions of 

 the Colorado desert is the native Califor- 

 nia palm, Washingtonia fflifera. A typi- 



cal desert sentinel, it lifts its head aloft 

 into the burning heat, a type of fearless 

 endurance. Imagine, if you can, a 



whole colony set in magnificent array as 

 one comes upon them in the "Canon of 

 One Thousand Palms." 



Almost as high as their wonderful 



CACTUS BLOOMS. 



