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F. WEINBERG, WOODSIDE, L. I. 
CEREUS, Mill. — Latin: Wax Candle— Torch Cactus. 
The cereus easily leads all the other varied families of cactus in beauty 
of flower, variety of form, and universal interest to both amateurs and 
florist. 
Among the one hundred and fifty or more species, which comprise the 
family, are plants varying in size from the Cereus tuberosus (E. Cereus), its 
slender recumbent branches, twelve to eighteen inches high and scarce the 
diameter of a lead pencil, to the giant columns of the C. giganteus rising twenty 
to thirty feet above the sandy plains of Arizona and frequently bearing many 
upright branches like an imense candelabra. 
A few are epiphitic and may be grown on sections of peat or tree fern, 
like the orchids. Very many are o^ upright habit, their fluted columns straight 
as an arrow, ever pointed upward. Others are of recumbent habit, making 
rapid progress and rooting at frequent intervals if unrestrained. 
In this family are found the largest and showiest of both the night and 
day bloomers. Many of them submit readily to grafting and cross fertiliza- 
tion, and all may be handled with less discomfort than others. Some being 
nearly devoid of spines, while the spines of the best armed of the family are 
prominent enough to be readily avoided. 
To the many beautiful natural bloomers has been added numbers of ex- 
ceptionally attractive hybreds. 
Cuttings will root freely in coarse sand, and a plant, raised from a cut- 
ting of the previous years growth, and growing in a rather small pot, will 
in two to three years, when potbound, flower, one year after another. 
Cereus. 
Amecaensis 50 to 2.50 
azureus 50 to 2,50 
Baumannii 50 to 7.50 
baxaniensis 25 to 2.50 
Boeckmannii 15 to 7.50 
Bonplandii 25 to 2.50 
Bridgesii i.oo to 10.00 
C. flagelliformis cristata grafted. 
C. grandiflorus (true). 
chalybaeus i.oo to 10.00 
Coccineus, see Martianus. 
coerulescens 75 to 10.00 
colubrinus, see Serpentinus. 
Dumortieri 1,00 to 5.00 
eburneus 2.00 to 10.00 
Emoryi 25 to i.oo 
