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home one night (17th of September, I think) and the whole com- 

 munity was interested over the blooming of one of those shown 

 in the two accompanying photos. It was a large plant and had 

 seventeen flowers in all. On our way we passed a house where 

 there was a "slip," a year old, from the one we were going to 

 see ; this, also, had two fine expanded flowers. The following 

 week the papers reported that Mrs. called in the neigh- 



Photo 149 

 Plant which Bore Flowers shown in Photo 148. 



bors to see the glory of her Night-blooming Cereus which had 

 eleven flowers, (on the same night as the two above described,) 

 and a Cleveland paper reported the blooming of a very large one 

 in Bedford, (().) the same night. About a month after, passing 

 a house eight miles from home and seeing one of these plants, a 

 very large one, the lady remarked, "You should have seen it 

 when in bloom." Tracing back to the date, it seemed to be the 



