Show pant Plant forced to make j hard fight for life not alone Is the inlo verde it a thing of beauty thit whole year round but it t Is also a bl blessing to the lie hungry when it Is in fruit for like ninny many 0 jo Us its desert companions it Is a if gum C tile the indian women formerly pounded the seeds to make lour flour for their bread writes write anna botsford coin stock in nature magazine the fruit Is IB eagerly sought hy fly rrt certain nIn four foot ed denizens of the desert the common coi ninon un poetical nnnie name horse benn Is applied to it as a trib ute life to its qualities despite its profusion of fruit the tl palo verde tins lias a struggle rugsle st to maintain itself dr forrest shrive shreve of the car negle desert laboratory tins proven tant the mortality of the seedlings 1 t very great during tile the severe arid conditions that characterize the lie early summers BUin mers in fit arizona doctor has established beyond question tit th fact that these delicate looking pile verdes of the desert have the dignity of years as well veil one near tile the desert laboratory was growing there a lusty luety seedling when columbus discovered america and at least 50 in the aren area which he studied were there when rather father kino founded the mission ol 01 son san xavier let del bac in the valley below beor 1700 A D |