Ednas Flower Gardens 



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hedge around the yard, looked Hke a cactus but 

 did not have cactus-like flowers. 



The Spanish dagger, with its "shoe-string" leaves 

 and tall cluster of flowers, seemed to Edna the same 

 as the Spanish bayonet in her front yard at home. 

 It is much planted for hedges, and the purple, 

 bitter-sweet pulp of the fruit is often eaten. 



Several kinds of century plants completed the 

 bed. When they bloomed, they sent up wonder- 



FiG. 69. A maguey plantation in Mexico. The young flower-stalks 

 are cut out of the agave plants and the juice collected and made into 

 pulque by fermentation. 



