cacti

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Many of the cacti were in their beautiful bloom and gave to the country the needed dash of color.

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  • Well, as old Dr. W. Taylor Marshall explained, it was supposed to do something entirely different—namely to provide a diffused shade for his collection of African desert plants IT was also Dr. Marshall who told me a large number of facts about the giant saguaro cacti, which is the way they spell the name in Arizona—in botanical handbooks, the spelling sahuaro seems to be preferred. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • The dogs ran wild, coming into contact regularly with rattlesnakes, cacti, and coyotes, but their numbers never diminished as there were always new puppies being born. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • It was the shadows of the giant cacti, the saguaros, straight out of a Western movie. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • Rick peered at the cacti, almost envying them now. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • And yet Between one moment and the next one, he had raised his arms above his head, into the same position exactly as the cacti which had such a painful hold of him We are joined. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
 

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