Bui. 25, Div. of Agrostology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate XIX. 



Fig. 1.— Range near Abilene, Tex., where improvement experiments were con- 

 ducted, SHOWING Characteristic Growth of Mesquite Bean iProsopis juli- 



FLORA). 



From a ]iliotiigrai)h by C. L. Shear. 





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Fig. 2.— View in the Santa Cruz Valley near Tucson, Ariz., showing the Man- 

 ner IN WHICH the Mesquite Bean iProsopis sp. i is being cut. 



From a [ihotoyrai)!! by D. Griffiths. 



