Bui. 208, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



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Fig. 1 .— A Field of Cultivated Native Prickly Pear at Brownsville, Tex., 

 Showing the Growth from Single-Joint Cuttings at the Close of the 

 Second Year, One Row having been Harvested. 



Fig. 2.— Another View of the Field Illustrated in Figure 1, Showing the 

 Growth of Two Years from the Stumps Left at the First Harvesting. 



