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F. WEINBERG, WOODSIDE, L. I. 
Succulents. 
Agave Gilbeyi. Agave Hystrix (stricta). 
ALOE, linn. — Aloineae. 
Quite similar to the agaves in general form and manner of growth are 
the aloe's, but they are easily distinguished from them by their softness and 
mo>re fleshy character of their leaves. One unfamiliar with those plants may 
hesitate to handle them, but spines or thorns, apparently as capable of mis- 
chief as those of the agaves, break or bend at a touch and are correspondingly 
harmless. They are as easily and successfully grown as agaves, and flower 
freely year after year when at the age of from three to five years. The large 
flower spike, which comes forth from the axil of the leaves, grow about two 
inches a day or about two feet and produces beautiful panicles of flowers, red, 
yellow and green combined. 
Aloe. Aloe. 
A. arborescens. a. Beguinii. 
