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tion, they require little care, will endure any amount of 
ill treatment and will thrive and bloom where other 
plants starve. The plants themselves are a bright, living 
green, Summer and Winter, while their individuality is 
so marked, and their manner of growth so curious and 
unique, that no one who has ever cultivated them can 
fail to appreciate and admire them. There is no trouble 
whatever in their propagation, no more than there is 
care in there culture. Some few of the varieties have 
the peculiarity of blooming at night; Cereus Grandiflora 
is commonly known as the Night Bicoming Cereus. 
They present such a diversity of form, and such beautiful 
flowers are produced from such scrawny plants, as to 
always make their cultivation interesting. 
ABUTILON. 
i ;OSTLY called Fairy Bells. They are an interesting 
===4 class of plants, and are suitable for either the flower 
garden or greenhouse. Nearly all are vigorous growers 
and produce freely handsome bell-shaped flowers of 
white, rose and yellow. Some varieties have variegated 
foliage, as in Thompscnii. There was a new variety in- 
troduced a few years ago having double flowers, but in 
our estimation it is not as pretty as the single flowering 
sorts. Boule de Neigh is the best white, and Golden 
Fleece the best yellow. There are many shades of red 
and rose. All are easily propagated from cuttings. 
ACACIA. 
77 HO has not heard of the ‘Sprig of Acacia”’ that so 
** easily comes up by the roots? They are an exten- 
sive group of really handsome plants, many of them 
