. The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again . veral smaller towns. We regretted not having adaylight view of beautiful Riverside and the noted orangegroves of that locality. Daylight found us in a strange re-gion, the hot, sandy desert which begins in Southeastern Cali-fornia and extends through the part of Nevada which wetraversed. Not a tree nor a blade of grass was to be seen,only the sand—so white that it dazzled the eyes—and in thedistance the bare, sandy foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Therewas no sign of animal or human life and it was a relief to seea solit
. The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again . veral smaller towns. We regretted not having adaylight view of beautiful Riverside and the noted orangegroves of that locality. Daylight found us in a strange re-gion, the hot, sandy desert which begins in Southeastern Cali-fornia and extends through the part of Nevada which wetraversed. Not a tree nor a blade of grass was to be seen,only the sand—so white that it dazzled the eyes—and in thedistance the bare, sandy foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Therewas no sign of animal or human life and it was a relief to seea solitary crow flying overhead. A little further on the desertwas dotted with low shrubs and we entered another cactusbelt. We had passed one during the night. This hardy plantrequires scarcely any moisture, and though in its natural stateit is valueless as fodder, a new variety, the spineless cactus,has been propagated by the famous plant magician, Burbank,which makes excellent feed for cattle. The spineless cactusmay at an early date be grown upon the Nevada desert and. Cactus and Sage Brush in Desert of South-Eastern California.
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