AND FLOWER-GARDEN DIRECTORY. 101 
CACTI. 
A mixture of loam, leaf-mould, and well-rotted manure, with 
sand duly incorporated together, will serve for the successful cul- 
ture of these beautiful flowering plants. The pots should, in every 
instance, have broken fragments of flower-pots placed in the bot- 
tom, to insure proper drainage; for without it, no success can be 
reasonably expected. When they are done flowering, thin out the 
least promising of the old and young wood, and place in a moder- 
ately warm situation until they start growing freely. Reduce the 
allowance of water gradually as they perfect their siqwth. When 
they have done growing, and the wood feels fai, the pots may 
be placed in some shady but airy place, protected froh 4h drip 
of other plants or dampness, and kept. clean of, moss. Plants 
managed in this manner, will generally flower well, The Cacti 
may readily be propagated from éuttinggNand by*grafting. To 
perform the latter operation ‘take a peafion of Bshoot, having at 
least four or five eyes, and: shape the 
form. Cut of the end wf a shoot, a 
of the same sufficiently larg&to a 
me into a wedge-like 
e an incision in the top 
ea graft. 
Insert the graft 
to the depth s era’ half-inch, ang-secure e with a small wooden peg. 
Large plants} having deveral nt varieties grafted upon them, 
peels a beautifl appetiince when in flower. 
