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SEED-TIME AHD HARVEST. 
cause they do not bloom in day time or open 
more than once. Were it so, the Night¬ 
blooming Cereus would be a common thing, 
and attract but little attention. But as it is, 
people will flock to see it and go in ecstasies 
about it. Storekeepers are anxious to get 
them, and advertise their blooming to at¬ 
tract visitors, and perhaps customers. 
On very strong plants as many as twenty- 
five flowers will open in a season, although 
the sight of one flower will well repay the 
little trouble (or pleasure) to raise the plant, 
which, by the way, is one of the easiest to 
manage. If you get a cutting tie it to a 
small plant stake, about three inches above 
the lower end of the stake, and insert this in 
a three-inch pot filled with clean sand. Let 
the cutting just touch the sand, and not be 
buried in it. Roots will soon form, and 
afterwards a new shoot will appear. You 
may then shake the sand out and replace it 
with good, rich soil mixed with a little mor¬ 
tar or ashes, one-fourth sand and one-fourtli 
manure. In about eight days set your plant 
in tuefull sun, water[it well, and let*it grow 
until cold weather. Gradually withhold 
water, and during winter let it remain in 
a very sunny place indoors where it will 
not freeze. If this place is very dry, water 
your plant about once a week. (This is the 
prescribed rule, although the plant w r e illus¬ 
trate received water regularly all winter, 
being placed among a lot of others.) 
Toward the end of April, when growth 
begins, water may be given more freely, 
and the plant may be shifted to a lager pot, 
where it can remain for several years. As 
it increases in size, a suitable trellis should 
be made for tying the branches to; two or 
three stakes will answer very well also. No 
pruning required and no insects to trouble 
it. If grown in a greenhouse it may be 
placed against a wall, to which it will fasten 
itself with the many small roots emitted 
from the stems. 
We have said much more about the Night¬ 
blooming Cereus than we intended to at 
first; but it is such a handsome and attract¬ 
ive plant that we encourage every one of our 
readers to get a few plants or cuttings, and 
we believe that after they bloom they will 
appreciate our advice. We nearly forgot to 
say that sometimes the flowers will measure 
over twelve inches across, and yet the plant 
takes up less space than that .—From Far m 
and Garden for July. 
Bliss’s New Peas. 
At the exhibition of the Mass. Horticul¬ 
tural society in Boston, on the last Saturday 
in July, an unusually large attendance and 
an extra good show was reported. “In the 
vegetable department the most noticeable 
exhibit was by B. K. Bliss & Sons of New 
York, of vines of Bliss’s Abundance and 
Bliss’s Everbearing peas. One of the former 
bore seventy-one pods, and one of the latter 
seventy-five, the product in each case, of a 
single seed. Of these new peas the first 
has the advantage of earliness, while the 
second is one of the latest bearing varieties 
yet introduced. The Society’s silver medal 
was awarded to Messrs. Bliss & Sons for 
these valuble additions to our list of garden 
vegetables. The display of other seasonaole 
vegetables was excellent in quality , though 
somewhat limited as to quantity.” 
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