Show curious ci CT cit I t ceilous amoni among vegetable growth Is tho the io otless cactus cactus of the california desert this plant a rould compact growth giov th rolls about the level floor of tho the desert for some eight or nine months of the ear tossed hither and on oil by the winds which blow with fler fierceness Geness avei all of california a sand plat during those months at the corn ing of the rains or rather the cloud bursts which sweep tho the desert in its springtime this cactus takes root wherever it to have been dropped by the last wind of which it was tho the plaything and immediately begins to put out all around it small shoots which in turn become cacti exactly like the parent plant |