Temple City, Calif. 
O. glomerata. With its flat harmless papery spines is 
about one inch in diameter. Be sure to include this 
one in your collection .45, smaller .25 
O. lagopus. Erect cylindrical stems covered with yel- 
lowish wool and spines. Rare $1.00 
O. mamillata cristata. The “Boxing Glove,” its club 
shaped branches will all form crested forms and odd 
shapes, never forms a normal branch as do other kinds. 
Small crests .35, larger crested ones $1.00 

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Opuntia mamillaris cristata 
O. microdasys. “Rabbit Ears;” a pretty one, tufts of 
short yellow spines in dots regularly distributed over 
the surface. Quite attractive .20 
O. microdasys var. alba. A white fuzzy variety .25 
O. monacantha. Small rooted stems, taken from rooted 
fruits .10 
O. monacantha variegata. Is curiously variegated with 
patches of red, green and yellow. Very desirable, a 
high-light in any collection .25, ‘Joseph’s Coat.” 
O. opuntia. This one is native to eastern states and 
Canada and is quite hardy .25 
O. rufida. Bears reddish tufts of glochids .20 
O. schickendantzii. Erect thin light green stems .20 
O. sp. cristata. A miniature crest growing well on its 
own roots of bright green wavy texture .75, with tiny 
weak spines. 

Opuntia sp. cristata 
PRICKLY PEAR COLLECTION 
Five of the choicest kinds including Beaver Tail, 
Grizzly Bear, Rabbit Ears, Joseph’s Coat and Boxing 
Glove, a $1.20 value for $1.00 
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O. serpentina. A cylindrical kind whose knobby 
branches twist about in a snaky manner .25 
O. serpentina cristata. A fine crested form of the above 
making odd fan shaped branches .60 
O. vilis. The small plants grow like little branched 
trees and are very attractive in the bowl or window 
garden .15 

O puntia vilis 
OREOCEREUS. From the high Andes Mountains of 
South America comes this group of fine cacti char- 
acterized by sturdy growth and beauty of spine color 
with glistening white hair. These fine cacti should be 
in every collection. 
O. celsianus. Striking with its colorful spines and long 
hair. Needs full sun for best spine and hair growth. 
Some call it the “Old Man of the Andes’ .50 
Large exhibition specimens $1.00 and $2.00 according 
to size. 
O. doelziana. One of the more recent discoveries, for- 
merly classified as Morawetzia. Grafted $1.00 
O. fossulatus. aller and faster growing than the 
former, not quite so hairy. Branches from the base. 
Nice specimens $1.50 
O. trollit. The “Old Man of the Mountains.’ This is 
the hairiest of the group with reddish spines emerging 
through the dense white wool which serves as a pro- 
tection from frost in its native Peru .35, larger .75 
PACHYCEREUS. Fast growing, columnar and are 
the easiest for the amateur to grow from seed. 
P. chrysomallus. Was pretty golden spines. 
one .50, small ones .25 
P. columna trajani. Seedling plants .25 
P. pecten-aboriginum. Meaning ‘Indian Comb’ be- 
cause the natives are said to use the spiny fruits to 
comb their hair .25 
P. pringlei. A giant when old, but has attractive color- 
ing as a small pot plant .25, larger .50 
PARODIA. Small flattened globular with colorful 
spines and flowers usually flowering when quite small. 
P. aureis pina. Pretty golden hooked spines and flowers. 
‘Tom Thumb” .25, large specimens .75 
P. islayensis. A globular woolly one from Chile. A 
few grafted specimens at $2.00 
A rare 
P. maassii. Orange-brown curved spines. Colorful 
seedlings .20 
P. mutabilis. Grafted plants .75 
