CHAPTER VII

SPRING AND SUMMER 90

Native Calendar—Conspicuous Flowers—Aloes and Agaves—Uniformity

of Length of Days—Native Words and Phrases for Divisions of

Time—And for Natural Phenomena—Hova Houses—Wooden and Clay—Their

Arrangement—And Furniture—“The Sacred Corner”—Solitary Wasps

—Their Victims—The Cell-builders—The Burrowers—Wild Flowers

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