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Like the rest of the genus this requires to be grown in a 



_ temperature o? which ihay be kept from 60 



moist stove, the 



degrees of Fahr. in winter, and from 70 



with sun heat, in summer 



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stock, with a stem adhering to them. The soil should coiisisr 



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