12O PICTURING MIRACLES 



worth staying up for and just filling up the upper 

 half of the picture, those six perfect blossoms each 

 nearly six inches in diameter, crowding each other 

 and making one solid mass of beauty, where in the 

 picture a few seconds before were those six snake 's- 

 head-like buds. The blossoms are of a delicate pink 

 shading into a deeper tone and last nearly a week. 

 After the flowering small baby-like plants start on all 

 sides of the mother and they look like a mother and 

 her family. They can be taken off so you will soon 

 have quite a group. 



The Rainbow cactus is another interesting one to 

 work with. The plant may grow ten or twelve inches 

 high; round, column-like with well defined bands of 

 color around it so the plant itself is very ornamental. 

 Sometimes two or three buds grow out near the top 

 and open up into large carmine-red coloration, un- 

 surpassed in brilliancy, changing with dazzling iri- 

 descence as the light changes on them. 



Many cacti absolutely refuse to open by electric 

 light in front of the camera. The little button cactus 

 closes immediately it is brought in. One might think 

 them ' 'camera shy" were it not for their opening by 

 a "Sunshine" light, however, and that same method 

 can be used where the blue Mazda fails. 



The succulents were not as interesting to me from 

 the picture standpoint, so I have worked less with 



