PLANT LIFE OF THE CANARY ISLANDS. 



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larkspur, poppies, and other highly colored flowers rush into bloom 

 on the first approach of spring, making the fields look like veritable 

 gardens of the gods. The roadsides and hills and neglected fields 

 produce numerous gorgeously colored yellow, purple, and red 







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The Agave in Blossom. A Spanish fort and the city lit' ].:» I'nlmas in the baokjrround. 



thistles, of a great variety of genera, very beautiful to look at, when 

 one has not been trying to pick them. 



Some plants which have been introduced for cultivation have 

 become partly or completely naturalized. The aloe, which we know 

 as the " century plant," makes hedges along the pathways, and is 

 planted up the mountain sides in rows. It is used as fodder for 

 goats and as thatch for peasant houses, and from the fiber are 



