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The plant, which is one of straggling growth, has grown to a 
considerable height, and pushed its roots along the shelves, almost 
to the opposite side of the house, which is rather a large one. 
For a considerable time, it had been what most growers would 
call neglected, that is, it had' been dried till it bore very much 
the appearance of being dead ; but when Mr. Crichton, the pre¬ 
sent gardener, entered on his charge, he, judging that the plant 
had had abundant rest, applied the usual stimuli to bring it into 
action. It revived easily ; but did not push for additional stems, 
though those which it had recovered their freshness. In a short 
time, however, two flowers, promising to be very large ones, 
made their appearance, progressed to maturity in a very regular 
way, and expanded on the evenings of the two days above stated. 
We had seen them on the plant a day or two before ; and, having 
received intimation, we arrived at the conservatory about midnight, 
just in time to see the flower at its greatest expansion. At that 
time the length of the tube was more than a foot; and the ex¬ 
pansion of the cup or terminal part of the tube, about eight or 
nine inches. It soon began to show signs of closing, upon which 
it was cut with part of the stem; and after being shown, and 
memorandums of it taken, it was placed in a box partially filled 
with silver sand a little moistened, in which the portion of stem 
and lower end of the tube were plunged. In this state it re¬ 
mained perfect all the next day, when it was carried to the rooms 
of the Horticultural Society for exhibition, and we believe it 
lasted some days longer. The second bloom, from which our 
drawing was taken, expanded on the Tuesday night, and was cut 
on Wednesday morning, after which the requisite data for the 
drawing were obtained, the flower being in full perfection at the 
time. As we said before, we shall another time enter more at 
length into the particulars of these flowers, and their native habits 
and habitats, together with the best means of growing and flowering 
them, so we now conclude with renewed expressions of gratitude to 
Mr. Christy for his liberality, and of congratulation to the lovers 
of choice exotics in being now in possession of a night-flowering 
Cereus, which contrasts finely with C. grandijlora, and is scarcely 
inferior in the size and splendour of its blooms, which appear to 
be of a rather less perishable nature. 
