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CERE US GRANDIFLORUS MAYNARDI. 
the dawn of day they begin to close, and by nine or ten o'clock the next morning 
they are withered and dead. The final closing of these flowers may be retarded for 
two or three days when separated from the plants. Cut off the bud before it is fully 
open, and stick the end in wet sand, and set it in a cool and shady place in the 
stove ; or as soon as they are expanded, cut them off, and then with sealing-wax 
make the wound secure ; suspend each in a large jar, place in a cool situation, fill up 
the vessel with clean cold water, and cover down with a lid. 
C. grandiflorus Maynardi was raised in 1837 by Mr. Henry Kenny, gardener 
to Viscount Maynard, at Easton Lodge, Dunmow, Essex. A flower of C. specio- 
sissimus was fertilised with the pollen of C. grandiflorus. The habit is trailing, 
like C. grandiflorus, and like that species, its flowers always open in the evening ; 
but they continue expanded about three days, and are in size from nine to eleven 
inches in diameter, and from seven to nine inches in length, from the base of the 
tube to the expansion of the sepals. It flowers equally as freely as C. specio sissimus. 
The wood and spines are intermediate between the two species, and very distinct 
from any kind previously raised. 
For our drawing we are indebted to Messrs. Hugh Lowe and Co., nurserymen, 
Clapton ; in whose collection of greenhouse plants it flowered early last spring. 
The generic name is from cereus, flexible, in allusion to the stems of several of 
the species. Maynardi is given in honour of Viscountess Maynard, who is a great 
admirer of flowers. 
