American homes and gardens . A Belated Turtle Plodding His Weary Way Where the Meadow-lark Secretes Her Nest acquaintance of innumerable little neighbors you knew not ofbefore; your world is enlarged, your pleasures multiplied, andyou come to feel that you have found a veritable garden ofEden in the weed-field. And this is done easily, readily andwithout real exertion. There is vigor given to a days outing when there is some definite end attached to it, something realto do, and something interesting to find. The camera yieldsno greater joy than when put to nature-study. Lasting me-mentoes of o
American homes and gardens . A Belated Turtle Plodding His Weary Way Where the Meadow-lark Secretes Her Nest acquaintance of innumerable little neighbors you knew not ofbefore; your world is enlarged, your pleasures multiplied, andyou come to feel that you have found a veritable garden ofEden in the weed-field. And this is done easily, readily andwithout real exertion. There is vigor given to a days outing when there is some definite end attached to it, something realto do, and something interesting to find. The camera yieldsno greater joy than when put to nature-study. Lasting me-mentoes of ones walks, its work is never toilsome and itspleasures always delightful. Desert-plants as a Source of Drinking-water. STRANGER left alone in a desert woulddie of thirst, and yet there is water in alldeserts, and both the native animals and thenative races know how to find it. This wateris gathered and stored by plants, which havebuilt and filled their reservoirs for their ownpurposes, but which yield it up, when required, for the useof the animal world. The extent of the root system in desert-plants, by meansof which they absorb their water from the soil, is often as-tonishingly great. In the Mohave Desert of California abranching cactus (Opuntia echinocarpa), 19 inches inheight, was found to have a network of roots extending overan area of ground about eighteen feet in diameter. Theroots lay near the surface, at a depth of two to four inches,a situation which enabled them to take advantage of a singlesubstantial downpour and, before the precipitation had beenagain absorbed into the parched air, to suck up a supply ofwater sufficient, if need be, for a whole years use. Otherdesert plants send their r
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