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THE SUCCULENT HOUSE. 



Other plants, the most easily cultivated, and suited to those who superin- 

 tend the management of their plants themselves. We learn from Mr. Don, 

 that these plants are found in the dry est situations, where not a blade of 

 grass nor a particle of moss can grow, on naked rocks, old walls, and sandy 

 hot plains, alternately exposed to the heaviest dews at night, and the 

 fiercest rays of the noon-day's sun. Soil is to them a something to keep 

 them stationary, rather than a means of nomishment, which to those plants 

 is conveyed by myriads of mouths, invisible to the naked eye, but cover- 

 ing all their surface, to the juicy beds of cellular tissue which lie beneath 

 them. 



In a humid, high temperature many of them may be grown to a large 

 size in a short time, and all of them, daring their growing season, flourish 

 better if the atmosphere around them is kept rather moist than other^sise. 



STRUCTURES FOR THE CULTIVATION OF SUCCULENTS. 



As succulents do not associate either in appearance or culture with any 

 other description of plants, where they are to be extensively cultivated, a 



house or houses should be appropriated to them. As few of them attain 

 a great height, at least until they are veiy old, a low-roofed house is best 



