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Entering one of these canyons from the Bandy desert outside, 



is like being transported to the tropics, for instead of cactus and 

 creosote-bush, there are groves of tall fan-palms growing luxu- 

 riantly in the moist bottom of the canyon, an extraordinary con- 



Fig. 47. — California fan-palm (Washingtonia filifera), Stanford 

 University. Photo., Dr. L. L. Burlingame. 



trast to the desert vegetation, only a few rods away. Tins palm. 

 Washingtonia filifera, is very common in cultivation in California, 

 and other countries of similar climate. 



Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico anil western Texas, 



