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HOHTICETcIk JOMIE, 



A MAGAZINE OF 



Horticulture, Botany, Agriculture, and the Kindred Sciences. 



Edited and Published byR. ROBTNSON SCOTT, No.63Waimit Street, between Second 

 and Dock Streets, up stairs. 



Vol. I.] Philadelphia, October, 1852. [No. 6. 



NOTES ON THE CACTI. 



No. II. 



Epiphyllum truncatum and its varieties make nice small flowering 

 plants in one year fi'om cuttings ; if good sized shoots are taken off 

 early in the Spring, and as soon as they are struck, shifted into four 

 inch pots and grown smartly through the Summer, water withheld 

 gradually and the shoots thoroughly ripened in Autumn, they will 

 flower well the following year. 



The grafting of Cacti is easily performed ; but in carrying it info 

 practice, some very unnatural looking vegetable monsters have been 

 produced. We have seen a large mass of Epiphyllum truncatum three 

 feet in diameter, growing on the lop of a wiry stem of Pereskia not 

 one inch thick, propped up and supported in every possible manner. 

 It must, however, be confessed, that they flower very well in this fash- 

 ion, frequently blooming two or three times in one season, owing, no 

 doubt, to the small amount of nutriment that the stock is capable of 

 transmitting to the succulent leaves of the graft, causing the formation 

 of flower instead of leaf buds. The free growing Cerei, such as C. 

 speciocissimus, and C. hexagonus are better adapted for stocks. The 

 Epiphylla, when grafted on these, become hardy greenhouse plants, 

 and the flowers are larger and superior to those grown on their own 

 roots. 



Cuttings of either of the above mentioned Cerei should be rooted 

 and grown with a single stern. When they reach the desired height, 

 cut off the top horizontally, and prepare the graft by paring off half an 

 inch of the bark at the base, and cutting it in the shape of a wedge. 

 With a knife or sharp pointed bit of wood, make an incision on the 

 r L top of the stock, fit in the graft, and secure it with a wooden peg (or 

 (•> spine) run through both stock and scion; tie a small piece of damp(V' 



