. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . nLava Flow, TENERIFE 77 slopes of the central ridge, , from Punta Hidalgoto Punta Teno, this desert land is almost these more favoured slopes the ground is cultivatedalmost from the foreshore, acres of land being underbananas, etc. A very different state of things existson the south-eastern shore-line, as can be easily seenby following the southern coast road from Santa Cruzto Fasnia, just beyond which the road ends. Oncethe grai
. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . nLava Flow, TENERIFE 77 slopes of the central ridge, , from Punta Hidalgoto Punta Teno, this desert land is almost these more favoured slopes the ground is cultivatedalmost from the foreshore, acres of land being underbananas, etc. A very different state of things existson the south-eastern shore-line, as can be easily seenby following the southern coast road from Santa Cruzto Fasnia, just beyond which the road ends. Oncethe grain fields in the immediate neighbourhood of theCuesta are left behind, the country becomes more andmore barren. Miles of rock-strewn country are givenover to the ugly prickly pear (principally Opuntiacoccinellifera or O. Dillenii), a species very largelycultivated in the Canaries, as the home of the cochinealbug, between 1831 and 1874, when the discovery ofaniline dyes spelt death to the Canarian industry. While on this subject it may be noted that cochinealis still much cultivated in the Islands, principallybecause the Opuntia thrives on ground from wh
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