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Show Desert Plants Store Water. The problem of storing a supply of water for their own use and of preventing pre-venting it evaporating has been solved by the desert plants in many most ingenious in-genious ways. Perhaps the most noteworthy note-worthy example is the so-called "water "wa-ter barrel," which, of about the size and shape of an ordinary beer keg, Is, In fact, nothing more nor less than a living water tank. Its whole interior Is composed of storage cells so admirably ad-mirably arranged that the pulp which they form contains something like 96 per cent of pure water. |