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Cactus--Wight Blooming, 
Cereus granditflorus Naturat Orver: Cactacee—Cactus Family, 
i; ERE is one of a class of plants which we should more fre- 
none that demand so little attention, requiring only a rough 
twice a week. They endure any amount of heat, but will 
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2 not withstand a positive frost. The Cereus grandiflorus is a native 
oetayy.of Mexico and the West Indies, where it grows to a large size, as do 
it 
SRE and wasting before day approaches. The flower is sometimes cut 
2) when in its prime, and preserved in a large glass jar with alcohol, 
Gransient Beauty. 
LOWER of the night! mysteriously awake 
When earth’s green tribes repose, why stealthful thus 
Comest thou to meet the stars—unfolding soft, 
Beneath their tranquil ray, thy peerless form? 
Flower of the night! chaster than Alpine snaws— 
Unvisited by aught save Heaven’s sweet breath — 
Why hide thy loveliness from mortal eye, 
Why pour thy fragrance to the unconscious night? 
tf, d Folie, 
*7TXIS not the fairness of the brow, That has a power to chain my gaze, 
Nor brightness of the eye; Or hold it in control; 
Nor yet the cheek whose radiant glow The beauty that I most admire 
Can with carnation vie, Shines spotless from the soul. 
Mrs. RL, Eldredge, 
WH hung such beauty on such rugged stalk, 
Thou glorious flower? 
Who pour'd the richest hues 
In varying radiance o’er thy ample brow? —Mrs, Sigourney. 
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quently find in our dwellings than we do, as there are’ 
