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CEREUS GRANDIFLORUS MAYNARDI. 
the dawn of day they begin to close, and by nine or ten o’clock the next morniii o 
they are withered and dead. The final closing of these flowers may be retarded ft! 1 
two or three days when separated from the plants. Out off the bud before it is ful]| i 
open, and stick the end in wet sand, and set it in a cool and shady place in tl 
stove ; or as soon as they are expanded, cut them off, and then with sealing-ws > 
make the wound secure ; suspend each in a large jar, place in a cool situation, fill u 
the vessel with clean cold water, and cover down with a lid. 
C. grandiflorus Maynardi was raised in 1837 by Mr. Henry Kenny, garden* 
to Viscount Maynard, at Easton Lodge, Hunmow, Essex. A flower of C. specim 
sissimus was fertilised with the pollen of C. grandiflorus . The habit is trailing j 
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 eleve 
inches in diameter, and from seven to nine inches in length, from the base of tl 
tube to the expansion of the sepals. It flowers equally as freely as C. speciosissimu 
The wood and spines are intermediate between the two species, and very distin 
from any kind previously raised. 
For our drawing we are indebted to Messrs. Hugh Lowe and Co., nurserymei 
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 i 
the species. Maynardi is given in honour of Viscountess Maynard, who is a gre: 
admirer of flowers. 
