KELSEY’S HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS 
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OTHER BULBOUS PLANTS, continued 
BICUCULLA (Dicentra) cucullaria. Soldier's Cap. 5 to 10 in. White-tipped cream. Delicate divided leaves. 
EXIMIA. Wild Bleeding Heart. 1 to 2 ft. Rose-colored blossoms, appearing from spring 
until autumn. Forms thick clumps. Very light, feathery foliage of exceptional beauty. 
CHROSPERMA muscaetoxicum. Fly-Poison. \'A to 4 ft. White. April. Long grass-like leaves. Very 
conspicuous spikes of dowers. - 
CONVALL ARIA majalis. Lily-of-the-Y alley. 4 to 9 in. One-sided nodding fragrant blossoms in early 
spring. 
ERYTHRONIUM americanum. \ ellow Adder’s-Tongue. G to 12 in. Large bright yellow lily-liko dow¬ 
ers rising from green mottled leaves. April, 
grandiflorum. A Pacific coast species with large yellow dowers, 
hartwegii. Light yellow, orange center, 
hendersonii. Pale purple, with deeper shades toward center. 
OXALIS acetosella. Y\ ood Sorrel. 2 to G in. White with reddish veins. June. 
XI 
HARDY CACTI 
E group of plants, not well known as yet, noted for their odd shapes, equipment 
barbed spines, dowers of unrivaled brilliancy, and powers of resisting extremes 
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of both drought and cold. They will not endure stagnant moisture at the roots, how¬ 
ever, especially in winter, and a dry situation on banks or in the rockery is, therefore, 
suitable for their best giowth, and they thrive in a sandy or rocky limestone soil. 
Hardy Cacti are also remarkably free from disease and insect pests, and we predict for 
them a permanent and important place in garden architecture. Wo offer some of the 
best species known. In height they vary, but nearly or quite till arc of low or prostrate 
growth. 
CACTUS missouriensis. 
berries. 
viviparus. Purple Cactus. Bright purple, showy (lowers, large. Whole plant 
covered with purple and white cymes. Rare. 
ECHINOCACTUS simpsoni. TlEDomioa Cactus. Shell pink to bright rose. Plant 
nearly hidden by different-colored spines. Very beautiful. 
ECHINOCEREUS viridiflorus. Green-Flowered Cereus. Showy. Covered with beautiful rod, purple and 
Plant dwarf; yellow or salmon (lowers, followed by scarlet 
Cactus viviparus 
Purple Cactus 
white spines. 
OPUNTIA arenaria. Large yellow (lowers. Joints round, with long white- or straw-colored spines, 
arborescens. Purple llowers and yellow fruit. Branching, sometimes G feet tall. 
camanchica. Comanche Cactus. Showy, with yellow (lowers and crimson fruit, which hangs till winter. 
Has long, stout spines of many beautiful shades. 
fragilis. Brittle Opuntia. Deep yellow. Very small sort, forming compact clumps. Very spiny. 
Flowers deep yellow. 
rafinesquii cymochUa. Fruit purple, free bloomer. Rare, fine species, 
rafinesquii greenii. Frtiit purple. Abundant bloomer. Few spines. 
mesacantha macrorhiza. Yellow (lowers abundant. Fruit purplish brown. Curious nearly spineless 
species. 
phaeacantha major. A new, largo sort with smooth, purplish joints and very long, purple or black spines. 
Rapid-growing, forming large clumps with yellow llowers and deep crimson fruit, 
polyacantha. Many-Spinkd Opuntia. Exceedingly showy, with long white, brown, purple or black spines, 
polyacantha albispina. White spines, often curled or twisted, 
polyacantha watsonii. Orange or tinged purple. Spines purple or black. 
A group of Hardy Cacti 
1. Opuntia arenaria. 2. Opuntia frag His. Opuntia polyacantha. 4. Opuntia mesacantha macrorhiza. 
5. Opuntia phccacanlha major 
