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the tips suffused with red. The fruit is pear-shaped and very 

 thorny, and has the peculiarity noted quite often among 

 ChoUa of becoming dry when fully ripe. This species bears 

 its fruit in June and July. 



How to grow 



Young plants grow readily if set out in the spring in rocky 

 or gravelly soil with occasional watering to moisten the soil 

 until the plants become established. Cuttings grow quite 

 easily if planted In spring, and also the plant can be grown 

 from seed sown In sandy soil In pots or flats. This species 

 is not Injured by a temperature of twenty degrees below freez- 

 ing and grows readily outside or Indoors. 



Golden Spined Jumping Cholla; Teddy Bear 



Cactus (OpuntiaBigelovU) 



(Named for Dr. J. M. BIgelow, an early enthusiastic stu- 

 dent of southwestern botany) 



How to identify and how it grows 



The Golden Spined Jumping Cholla, or Teddy Bear 

 Cactus, Is a very conspicuous and attractive plant among 

 the Cholla species, and Is the spiniest of all this clan, growing 

 as high as twelve feet, and with a very tough stout main trunk 

 sometimes eight feet tall and three or four inches In diameter, 

 from which appear numerous ascending branches forming 

 a dense rounded head. The joints or branches are three to 

 six inches long and are yellow-green. There is a dense armor 

 of light golden-yellow spines, dark at their tips, eleven to 

 fifteen of them Interlocking, an Inch of more in length and 

 covered with paperlike sheaths which are somewhat loosely 

 placed. The spicules are straw-colored and appear In the 

 form of bundles. The flowers of this Cholla are borne at 

 the tips of the joints and are pale green suffused with purple. 



