"Mesquite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sonoran Zone, above the Covillea association, than elsewhere (Pl. IV, Figs. 1 and 2). A few scattered dens are to be seen in the Covillea belt, but as one rises to altitudes of 3,500 to 4,000 feet, and the Covillea is replaced by the cat's-claws (Acacia sp. and Mimosa sp.) and scattered mesquite (Prosopis), with the Opuntia becoming less abundant, kangaroo rat mounds come more and more in evidence. Here is to be found the principal grass growth supporting the grazing industry, and the presence of a more luxuriant ...
— Life History of the Kangaroo Rat • Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor
... dull-brown flood from the edge of the Indian Garden Plateau. By the new Hance Trail, excepting a few daringly steep spots, you can ride all the way to the river, where there is a good spacious camp-ground in a mesquite grove. This trail, built by brave Hance, begins on the highest part of the rim, eight thousand feet above the sea, a thousand feet higher than the head of Bright Angel Trail, and the descent is a little over six thousand feet, through a wonderful ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
... from Thomas Mitchell, 259 W. 29th St., New York, N. Y., to Julio P. Grandjean, Box 748, Mexico, D. F. I am a tree breeder interested in creating hybrid crop trees, oaks and, if possible, bi-generic hybrids of carob with honey locust and with mesquite. I have, in the past seven years, made over a thousand crosses of poplars and about 600 inter-specific oak crosses. This spring I made 250 oak crosses at the Arnold Arboretum, of which about 20% seem to be ripening viable acorns. I have a list of 90 varieties ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various
... Boy saw and watched her brave attempts at self-control with deep appreciation. But suddenly, as they rode and talked, a dark form appeared across their way a little ahead, lithe and stealthy and furry, and two awful eyes like green lamps glared for an instant, then disappeared silently among the mesquite bushes. ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... had been walking ahead, shrieked. He had caught sight of his companions swinging from the branches of a mesquite. There could be no doubt of their identity; Serapio and Antonio they certainly were. ...
— The Underdogs • Mariano Azuela |
