FIG. 96. GIANT CACTUS (Echinocactus). 



[H. J. Shepstone 



A native of Mexico. The spines are sufficiently long to be used as toothpicks. A similar plant, about seven feet high and 

 weighing a ton, was once received at Kew, but the injuries to its succulent flesh in transit were such that it did not 



long survive. 



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