The Canadian Horticulturist. 





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THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS. 



THE Night-flowering Cereus (Cereus grandiflorus) has gained a fame which 

 entitles it to prominent notice, and plants might well be included in every 

 garden, for its flowering in a source of interest to the least observant per- 

 sons. In the character of producing its blooms at night, it is not alone, as 

 several of the slender-growing species 

 have a similar habit, but none equal 

 this in beauty and fragrance. 



-'That flower, supreme in loveliness and 

 pure 

 As the pale Cynthia's beams, through 

 which unveiled 

 It blooms, as if unwilling to endure 



The gaze by which such beauties are 

 assailed." 



The flowers are really magnificent, 

 and a plant with a dozen or two ex- 

 panded at the same time has a 

 superb appearance, particularly in the 

 early evening when the flowers first 

 expand, and the powerful fragrance 

 they emit is very agreeable, having 

 been aptly compared to vanilla. The 

 stem is nearly cylindrical, with a few fig. s—the night-blooming cereus. 



faintly marked ridges bearing small clusters of spines, and rarely exceeds one inch 

 in diameter, but attains a length of many feet, freely I )ranching. The flowers vary 

 in size from six to twelve inches in diameter, the u sual size being eight or nine 

 inches. The sepals are narrow, acute and spreading, about one-quarter of an 

 inch broad, four to five inches long, and thirty to forty in number, forming a 

 beautiful fringe round the broader pure white petals, which are more in the form 

 of a cup, the stamens being exceedingly numerous, with very long filaments. — 

 ZfCwis Castle in American Garden. 



White Roman Hyacinths should be planted as soon as received in flats or 

 boxes, and placed either in a cold house or frame until they are well rooted. 

 They must be kept shaded during this time, after which they may be brough 



