. Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies. panions. Vanilla vines climbed up the trunks of the cocoa-nut trees and the royal palm. The shape of theflowers showed that they were orchids, which sur-prised Edna. Their long pods are usually gathered : J If ~y1 i i ^j/BjgSKKttt T .ft |gE| A! ^^^fT1^ TV-jfi w^9A < t, • .- r j^, j ? ? jjl ^ * ^•ht #ig^i iy^^ ^^Liii^SuP .,, zSgSg. SB Wmm ,1,*1^| Fig. 67. x*\ collection of desert plants at the New York Botanical Garden,with melon cacti and century plants in the foreground. before they are quite ripe and cure
. Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies. panions. Vanilla vines climbed up the trunks of the cocoa-nut trees and the royal palm. The shape of theflowers showed that they were orchids, which sur-prised Edna. Their long pods are usually gathered : J If ~y1 i i ^j/BjgSKKttt T .ft |gE| A! ^^^fT1^ TV-jfi w^9A < t, • .- r j^, j ? ? jjl ^ * ^•ht #ig^i iy^^ ^^Liii^SuP .,, zSgSg. SB Wmm ,1,*1^| Fig. 67. x*\ collection of desert plants at the New York Botanical Garden,with melon cacti and century plants in the foreground. before they are quite ripe and cured in a special wayto develop vanillin, the substance which gives theagreeable odor to the pods. In a dry corner of the yard, fenced off from Snow-ball, Edna had her rocky bed of cacti, century plants, i84 Three Young Crusoes and yuccas. These needed very little water, butthey could not quite grow in the air like the night-blooming cereus bore large, fragrantflowers that opened at night and attracted splendidmoths; the Turks-headcactus had a red cap somewhat. Fig. 68. The Turks-head cactus like a Turkish fez; and there was a tall cactus withlittle red specks on it, which were really cochinealinsects. The milky euphorbia, or spurge, used for the Ednas Flower Gardens i85 hedge around the yard, looked like a cactus butdid not have cactus-like flowers. The Spanish dagger, with its shoe-string leavesand tall cluster of flowers, seemed to Edna the sameas the Spanish bayonet in her front yard at is much planted for hedges, and the purple,bitter-sweet pulp of the fruit is often eaten. Several kinds of century plants completed thebed. When they bloomed, they sent up wonder-
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