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ready to drop, already are getting in order for 
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1875. See how exquisitely, again, this is illus- | t 
sagt in buds of the sens which even 
in October, if opened carefully, sh w a | t 
silky ‘blossoms Nae are to st forth with ne 
year’s peer If Nature likes to finish , truly 
Sa yet more Satty loves to begin 
Happy are those 
follow = counsels. 
OPUNTIAS. 
Very odd, y quaint, very unlike any other 
plants, ‘it is, perhaps, easily understood why “= 
“a care much, and why those few ried Bok yw tdea 
them Spt p m the oddity o r form, the 
linney of their flowers gives them a rea = ‘oe in 
the eyes of the plant-lover, The fruits, too, of o 
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without pa aA me 
ow abundantly on 
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insect elke be seen in the succulent-house 
that of diee common mealy-b 
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another, tet as kis piante adyanoe in age cylindrical 
runks are for species, of considerable 
height and oe orga a crown of branches at the 
species are very numerous, and may b 
according to the form of the 
d or cylindrical, the presence or absence 
rickles a nd tubercles 
of th nese plants is ‘of the easiest : glen ty 
of light, mo at, a ric r open , well-drained soil, 
anda et i ikti supply of w are the main requisites, 
stagnant moisture is selene hurtful to them 
Some species are mentioned as har ay in ths country, 
such as a prostrata, ugar and Rafinesqui 
only speak with certainty as to the ls tter, 
ieve tat ona dry, wail drained border, at t 
uth w nstance, may once’ mihi 
it is able that 
® 
e pi ps 
but 
T 
Arin 
Along the Mediterranean, as at Monaco and Men- 
— to northern eyes, reat 
m the —. overhanging t 
s neig 
rve to give some idea of the luxuriant 
growth c of these Pian So abu ndan t and s > muc 
e”a 
Kap that they are vce wild there. Nevertheless, for 
thi ings are than that no Opu 
k in Euro ope al after the recy 3 ‘the 
an ae is (so far a 
plants are Pcie entirely pens Bec 
continent, the hot, dry regions of Mexico, Californi 
ing r of specie 
ype 
and Peru affordi the largest 
Pli ys ‘peed t, th 
thing widely di 
The writ the sixteenth iene, mre Cag 
ers of 
his Statistica Beep della 
as wild 
othe American 
beef Fiora as on 
rin Spain. It 
me geo of Switzer- 
it is as wild on some of the hills 
einheil considered that the plant was brought by 
the Spaniards from Me alee and calligat na by hiem | in 
the Sou f Spain, fro henc iffused 
throughout the A pa Moa ean es vag, es estine, 
nd that the Moors, driven out of Spain, took the 
plant with them to Barbary, whenc es 
iha bar ary Fig,” and the Arab expression, ‘‘ Christian 
Desfontaines in, bi Flora slentisa, after notic 
t stamens ar ship to t uch (stamina ad 
ae Ane irrit akihaha sa its use as a hedge plant 
Algeria, ‘mu at ia sly hortorum -i domorum im= 
penetr Bite” 
wief summary of all that is known as to its 
introduction to Europe is given in De Candolle’s 
Géographie Botanique, ii, 725. 
will apply, mutatis malandis to the Agav 
mon as a hedge in the Riviera and in ec oe as 
to the Opuntias. 
The awe remarks 
om 
GRAPE GROWING UNDER 
DIFFICULTIES. 
ERAL GARDENS, SUTT ASHIRE. 
—Tt is often said that South eae ae bricks 
| better than ping Fiii x plen Hala as are these 
ere, cal to abl as 
consequences 0 uet 
d for the purposes Ther a 
the very midst of t this Paa i 
grown large quan 
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the 
xistence in a quantities, 
employed, even in 
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