Capitolo 59
climate suits him, and where you/he/she has succeeded once to earn a sure position. The
more you cut him/it, the jumps more often; each murdered piece it becomes
his/her parent in due duration of a numerous descendant. However, crews with his
usual ingenuity, has handled to best the plant, on this its his/her own earth,
and it turns him/it into an useful forage for his/her burden animals. The prickly one
pear is planted abundantly on naked stones in the Algeria, where nothing other
grows, and is cut when adult, dispossessed of his/her thorns from a
raw trial to cut, and used as I feed for camels and bovine livestock. It
this way he/she offers damp and fresh forage in African summer when the grass
you/he/she has dried on and all the other crops of pasture have failed completely.
The flowers of the prickly pear, as of many other cactuses, grows
apparently on the edge of the leaves that you/they alone would give the
careful mind a suggestion as to the true nature of those often and
flattened expansions. For every whenever what seems leaves flowers they are born
or it bears fruit on their edge or midrib, as in the family example of
butcher's broom, you can be sure to one look of theirs they are really branches
disguising himself/herself/itself disguised as foliage. The flowers in the prickly pear
it is great, beautiful, and yellow; at least, they would be good-looking if
one could ever see them, but they is generally covered so thick in
dust that properly it is difficult to appreciate their beauty. Them
has many petals in numerous file and many stamens in
a rose in the centre; and, to the best of my knowledge and my belief,
how lawyers put him/it, they is enriched from tropical to a large extent
butterflies; but on this point, having observed them but few in
their native habitats, I speak under correction.
The same fruit to which the plant owes its popular name, is
botanically a berry, although a very great, and it exhibits in an extremely
specialized degree the general tactics of all of his/her family. As far as
them leaf-as stems goes, the principal object in the life of the cactuses