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Updated: May 29, 2025
Yet the deglat palms which grow here in great abundance the finest in the world with their lower leaves pendent, sere and yellow; the figs, lemons, apricots and pomegranates clustering in savage meshes of unpruned boughs among which the vine, likewise unkempt, writhes and clambers liana-fashion, in crazy convolutions all these things conspire to give to certain parts of the oasis, notwithstanding its high cultivation, a bearded, primeval look.
There are half a million trees paying taxes the common variety sixty centimes, the delicate amber-tinted and translucent deglat twice as much; some trees produce more than fifty francs a year. But they require incessant care; "palms must eat and drink," say the Arabs; they drink, in the summer months, a hundred cubic metres of water apiece!
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