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a single stalk or stem, a foot and a half In diameter, as high 

 as seven feet, and with twenty to twenty-four ridges. The 

 ten to fourteen grouped bristles are placed radially, are 

 about two Inches long and are white or mottled much like 

 a negro's fuzzy hair. There are also from nine to twelve 

 radial spines one and one-half Inches long, while the three 

 or four centrals are larger and stouter than the others, about 

 two and one-half inches long. All the central and radial 

 spines are cross-ridged In mottled pink or light rose shadings, 

 and have yellow tips. The flowers, which open in April and 

 May, are yellow, and the midribs of the petals and sepals 

 are a reddish purple on the outside. The blossoms are about 

 the length and breadth of an egg and very rarely open In full. 

 The fruit matures In July. This species grows best In rocky 

 soils and in the hottest and dryest exposures. 



How to grow 



Set out plants preferably early in spring In gravelly or 

 rocky clay loam with good drainage and sunny exposures, giv- 

 ing just enough Irrigation to keep the soil moist during the 

 growing season. Plants grow easily from seed in sandy 

 loam in flats or pots In part shade. Keep the soil lightly 

 moist, never wet. The plants grow Indoors and out and are 

 not injured by a temperature of twenty-five degrees below 

 freezing; In zero weather they require protection. 



Pink Flowered Visnagita (Echinocadus 

 Johnsonii — Ferocactus Johnsonii) 



(Named In honor of Joseph Ellis Johnson, an amateur 

 botanist of southern Utah) 



How to identify and how it grows 



The Pink Flowered Visnagita grows from single cylin- 

 drical stems one foot tall or less and three to four Inches In 



