Where Cactus Can be Successfully Grown 



Map of Globe, Where Spinaless Cactus Can Be Grown 



Cactus can be grown close in along the 

 coast of California, south to San Diego, 

 in the great valleys of California, in a 

 considerable part of Southern Arizona, 

 Southern New Mexico, Southern Texas, 

 Southern Louisiana and all along the Gulf 

 and Atlantic Coast of the United States 

 well up to South Carolina for about one 

 hundred miles inland, more or less, ac- 

 cording to elevation and other factors. In 

 a general way, this is the part of the 

 United States best adapted for cactus 

 culture. 



Maps of the Globe with cross lines in- 

 dicating the northern and southern limits 



for the successful cultivation of the new 

 Giant Burbank Cactus plants for fruit and 

 forage ; it will be observed that the whole 

 continents of Africa and Australia, most 

 of South America and the southern part 

 of North America, Southern Europe and 

 Asia and most of the thousands of islands 

 of the seas are included in the territory 

 where they can be grown ; even this great 

 territory, including more than three- 

 fourths of the inhabitable land of the 

 earth is being somewhat extended by the 

 production of hardier varieties. This work 

 is progressing slowly but very surely. 



"Burbank's thornless cactus is certainly prov- 

 ing itself to be the modern vegetable marvel. 

 Nothing 1 like it has ever been produced before. 

 Its vitality surpasses the limit of belief, for noth- 

 ing in the vegetable world has ever shown such 

 wonderful resistant capacity, such reproductive 

 powers, such exuberance of growth." "Stand- 

 ard," Eureka^ Cal. 



"On one of our experimental farms, in this 

 state, we have some of Mr. Burbank's thornless 

 cactus growing side by side with the best varie- 

 ties of the government's thornless cactus, dis- 

 tributed last spring. 



"The rate of increase on the part of the poorest 

 of the Burbank cactus as compared to the best 

 of the government cactus is about fifteen to one." 

 "Enterprise," Silver City, N. M. 



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