PHYLLOCA C TUS—PIL O CEREUS—RHIPSALIS. 



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The plants are the most extensively grown for the beauty of their flowers, of all the 

 family to which they belong, and specimens from ten to twenty years old or more are 

 grown and flowered in cottage windows in various parts of the country. Plants with 

 from half-a-dozen to thrice that number of brilliant or pure trumpet-shaped blooms are 

 very beautiful. A few species will be named, but in addition to them are many charm- 

 ing varieties that have been raised from seed, and one of the prominent features in the 

 Annual shows of the Koyal Horticultural Society in the Temple Gardens is the group 

 of Phyllocacti arranged by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. Blooms are represented in 

 every imaginable colour found in cactaceous plants, and are admired by thousands of 

 visitors. 



Select Species. 



P. Ackermanni. — Flowers rich scarlet, and freely 

 produced. 



P. ALBTTS superbtjs.— Beautiful creamy- white fragrant 



flowers ; very popular. 

 P. angtjliger Flowers white and sweet-scented; 



winter flowering. 

 P. CRENATiia. — Flowers pale cream colour, and 



fragrant ; free flowering. 

 P. grandis. — Large creamy-white flowers ; night 



blooming. 



P. Haagei. — Flowers flesh - colour-, changing to 

 carmine. 



P. Hookeri. — Very large white flowers, sweetly 

 scented ; night blooming. 



P. Jenkinsoni.— Medium size, cherry-red flowers ; 

 freely produced. 



P. Kermesina magnus. — Extra large flowers ; orange, 

 striped with red. 



P. latifrons.— Flowers large, creamy-white; expand- 

 ing in the night. 



P. Peacocki. — Large flowers ; brilliant crimson, shot 

 with purplish violet ; very fine. 



P. speciosissimus Feltoni.— Handsome purple violet 

 flowers. 



Pilocereus. — This is a small genus closely allied to cereus, and only the one 

 species, P. senilis (" Old Man "Cactus), is generally cultivated. The plants should be 

 grown in the warmest part of a heated cactus house and in the full sun. During the 

 summer, or the growing season, they ought to be kept moist at the roots, but should 

 not be watered during the winter. About the upper portion of the stems of compara- 

 tively young plants of the " Old Man " Cactus are formed numerous shaggy locks of 

 white wiry hair, which causes the plants to bear a strong resemblance to the neglected 

 head of an old man. The plants are of slow growth, attaining to a height of four 

 feet in about twenty-five years. Other species known to collectors need not be 

 enumerated here. 



Ehipsalts. — The Mistletoe Cactus (Fig. 122). Some of the species in this genus are 

 remarkable imitations of plants altogether distinct from Cactuses, and are interesting 

 accordingly. They have round or angular leafless stems, some much branched and 

 drooping, others more erect. The flowers are small and numerous, followed by small 

 transparent bead-like fruits. Ehipsalis are easily raised from seed, and cuttings root 



