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THE SUMMER TREATMENT OF CACTI. 



ones, must be grown in pots or boxes, 

 but in summer it is pleasant to relieve 

 their stiffness by bedding them out in 

 this picturesque mound fashion. Thus 

 they are more easily cared for, and that 

 the mound is much prettier than the 

 potted group will be shown by contrast- 

 ing the two pictures. 



I have never been afflicted with the 

 cactus craze, and perhaps this is the 

 reason why so many complimentary 

 plants, cuttings, etc., have been sent 

 With the exception of the 

 phyllocacti, some forms of 

 which are as graceful as 

 any plant that grows, all 

 cacti are stiff, prickly, curi- 

 ous things, and a little round 

 cactus planted in a little 

 round pot has very much 

 of a dumb-bell effect. 

 t:»^^^ ^" winter all cacti, 

 except the 

 very hardy 



Fig. 1650.— Opcntia. 



me. I am always glad to get the prickly 

 things out of the way into some such an 

 outdoor arrangement, and summer treat- 

 ment of this kind seems to suit the 

 plants well. 



The broad-leaved phyllocacti are 

 handsome and harmless enough to keep 

 at closer range, and they do not like the 

 full, hot sun so well as most other sorts; 



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