California Flowers, Plants, Seeds, Bulbs, Etc. 



The Cereus triangularis has for neighbors in the Cactus bed many rows of Echinopsis Mulleri, which 

 also forms a border around the bed. This is a low growing cushion-like Cacti that blooms at intervals 

 during the year. The flowers are large and funnel shaped, flaring and double. Color a lovely satin pink, 

 the stem is long and covered with greyish silky hairs. One morning not long since there Avere 285 of these 

 exquisite flowers out. They were all turned toward the sun, and were like a dainty pink regiment on dress 

 parade. 



The buds of Echinopsis Mulleri are like a bunch of grey furze, when they first appear. Mrs. Shepherd 

 told of a lady friend who came to her mourning because her Echinopsis did not bloom. Upon inquiry it 

 was learned that she had systematically pinched off the buds as fast as they appeared, thinking they were 

 bunches of mold and would destroy the plant if not taken off. 



Mr. Lohn succeeded in getting fine pictures of these beautiful flowers. 



CEREUS. 



A large genus of grotesque plants, of very variable form, many producing magnificent, brilliantly-colored 



flowers of great grace and beauty ; often deliriously fragrant, many blooming at night. 



C. Triangularis. (Night bloomer.) One of the most curious of this interesting family. Outside it 

 grows to immense proportions, and if planted near a dwelling the branches will flatten themselves 

 against the side of the house, sending out long white roots on each side, which attach themselves tightly 

 until the stems become hardened, when they loosen and hang like heavy gray strings. The flowers are 

 superb ; immense in size, of a fine creamy white, with magnificent clusters of silky stamens and a large 

 light yellow pistil. I offer plants of all sizes, from young plants, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1, up to $5 and $10. 



C. Graildifloms. The magnificent night-blooming cereus, produces large flowers nearly a foot across, 

 the sepals of a dark brown outside, yellowish within, the petals pure white. Flowers begin to open 

 between 7 and 8 in the evening, are fully open by 11, beginning to fade in five or six hours. Of great 

 beauty, with strong, sweet fragance. 20c, 50c, $1 each. 



C. Macdonaldiae. Stems cylindric, creeping or climbing, branched, slender; night blooming ; flowers 12 

 to 14 inches across; sepals brown, red and orange, petals delicate white. Native of Honduras. 25c, 50c, 

 $1 each. 



€. Colubrinus. (From Cuba.) This Cereus is a very quick, strong grower, soon attaining stately propor- 

 tions. When too tall it may be cut down and the stems cut up and rooted, each one making good 

 plants. The old plant will send forth new shoots in candelabra form. Excellent for grafting other 

 sorts on when 2 or 3 feet high. It bears fine white flowers that bloom at night, and large fruit almost 

 the color and size of an orange. Price, 25c to $1 ; plants 3 to 6 feet high at $2 to $5. 



C. Einoryi. (Velvet cactus.) Fine, closely set yellowish spines, cylindrical. 50c to $5. 



C. Gremmatus. A very thick, short plant ; 3 to 6 ribs running one into the other, edged with a row of 

 very closely set and very short spines. Flowers yellowish green, 8 inches in diameter. Price, 50c to 

 $1.50. A handsome and strong Cactus. 



C. Flagelliformis. Under the popular names of Whipcord and Eat Tail Cactus, this plant is well known, 

 and probably is the most generally grown of all the Cereus, excepting Cereus Grandiflorus. The stems 

 are very slender, about half an inch in diameter, and they grow to the length of 5 or 6 feet, being of 

 pendulous habit. It grows for years and years, forming interesting specimens. When flowering this 

 has a most striking effect, the bright, rosy-colored flowers, which are produced in spring and early sum- 

 mer, being extremely attractive. Owing to its very pendulous habit, this species is generally seen to 

 better advantage grafted on a stem of the Columnar Cereus, upon any of which it seems quite at home, 

 and blooms much more profusely. Price, 25c to $1.50; cuttings, 10c. 



ECHINOPSIS. 



This group of species includes a number of plants at one time considered to be related to the Echino- 

 cacti, but which are readily separated from that genus by the long tubular or funnel-like flowers produced 

 from the side of the stem, instead of near the summit, as in the Hedgehog Cactus. Many of the species are 

 very handsome when in flower, which open at night, and several are as hardy as the Echinocereuses, being, 

 therefore, employed on rockeries or in warm situations out of doors, with Opuntias and a few Mamillarias. 

 Owing to this hardiness of constitution they are useful as window Cacti, and are generally grown for that 

 purpose in the miniature pots. They are easily grown and attain a large size, almost the only 

 requisite being to avoid giving them too much water, either in the soil or in the stems, particularly 

 during the winter. They vary as much in shape, length of spines and habit of growth as the Echinocerei. 

 They produce many young plants from the base and side, which can easily be rooted in sand and soon form 

 nice, blooming specimens Sometimes refuse persistently to bloom, and this is usually the case when they 

 are covered with many offsets ; these should be removed. Echinopsis, when pot-bound, do not object to a 

 watering with liquid manure. They are strong growers and make many roots, and require re-potting much 

 more freely than Mamillarias and other Cacti. In California they grow and bloom outside. I have counted 

 285 blossoms of E. Mulleri out at once in the Cactus bed. 



E. Eyriesii. One of the best known of the species and one of the most beautiful when in flower. Stem 

 very regularly globular. Flowers 6 to 8 inches long, like a curved funnel, and are 4 to 5 inches across 

 the mouth, formed by numerous tapering white petals spreading symmetrically. The delicious fra- 

 grance possessed by the flowers is very powerful and most pleasing. Price, 25c to $1.50. 

 E. Mulleri. One of the most beautiful and valuable Cacti, because of its large, elegant and satiny flowers. 

 It grows very rapidly and blooms the second year, beginning in early spring and blooming at intervals 

 for months. 15c, 25c, 50c, $1 ; very large specimens, $2. 



