2 THE RETUSE ECHEVERRIA. 
greenhouse, half-shrubby species, growing from one to two feet high, and thriving vigorously in a 
light mixture of sandy loam with leaf-mould and plenty of sand. Tt is easily increased by the leaves, 
and flowers freely from November to April, that is to say, throughout the winter." 
. No plants are better suited to window gardens than these Echeverrias, all the species of which 
blossom the whole winter long, will thrive in soil of any sort, are not very impatient of either heat 
or cold, dryness or dampness, and which are so varied in colour, form, and manner of growth, as 
to form of themselves variety enough for such a space as the recess of a window affords. One of 
the most singular is the Pachyphytum bracteosum of Klotzsch, which does not appear to be in 
any way distinguishable from the genus. 
