HOW TO GROW CACTUS FROM SEEDS 
TIME TO PLANT—For house or greenhouse culture without artificial heat, late spring and summer are best, but 
they may be planted at any time of the year if a minimum temperature of 65° F. can be maintained. Best results 
seem to be obtained with a temperature of 70 to 90° F., but higher temperatures in the glasshouse during the 
day do not harm them if they are kept moist. The seed pans should never be allowed to become dry, but do 
not keep them standing in water all the time. 
SOIL FOR SEED—Sift equal parts of well rotted leaf-mold and sand through a one-fourth inch mesh screen. 
(IMPORTANT—Do not use a finer screen thinking to make a softer bed for the dainty seedlings, as the soil must 
be kept ventilated by the coarse particles.) Place some coarse gravel, mortar or broken brick about an inch deep 
at the bottom to insure drainage. Also have some holes in the bottom of the container. Shallow pots, nursery 
flats or cans may be used. The one pound coffee can is ideal for two or three hundred seeds. 
SOW THE SEED thickly on top and cover with coarse sand or small gravel, about 14 to 14 inch deep. Crushed 
grit such as the poultry feed houses supply is ideal as the dust and finer particles are removed and the seeds must 
have air. Do not cover with soil as the seeds will remain dormant or smother and decay. For very small seed 
such as Mamillarias the gravel covering may be put on first and the seed allowed to settle between the crevices. 
This is the way they are grown in nature. 
WATERING—After seeds are sowed place container in a pan of water until moisture appears on top. Then 
remove and water thereafter by sprinkling lightly from the top. The covering used must be coarse enough to be 
undisturbed by light sprinkling. The seed must be kept moistened until germination takes place which is about 
four days to two weeks. Some slower kinds will germinate after several weeks. It may be well to sterilize the 
soil before planting with boiling water to kill insects and fungi. If mold or “damping-off’” fungus appears spray 
with a good fungicide. Do not keep in direct sunlight, but give moderate light after seedlings appear. 
TRANSPLANTING may begin when first spines appear, but if the seedlings are not crowded they may be left 
until about pea-size or one-half inch high. Use same soil as above with the addition of good garden soil. Equal 
parts of leaf-mold, sand and loam is a good mixture. Add a little charcoal and place some of the gravel used for 
covering seed on top around the seedlings after they have been transplanted. 
Some seeds are very limited in our stock. Please list a few alternate selections in case some kinds ordered are 
sold out, or permit us to make substitutions. 
CACTI AND SUCCULENT SEED 
The following seed can be supplied at 10c per packet except where otherwise noted. 
Orders for seed amounting to $1.00 or more are prepaid. Please include a 3c stamp with smaller orders. 
ACANTHOCALYCIUM ECHINOCACTUS EPIPHYLLUM HYBRIDS 
violaceum grusonii Gloria 
horizonthalonius Hermosus 
AS at ingens Jenkensonii 
ae ECHINOCEREUS Lochengrin 
ASTROPHYTUM albispinus Mixed large flowering hybrids 
capricorne senilis boyce-thompsonii Rosetta 
myriostigma coahuilense derenbergii Scarlet Giant 
myriostigma potosina engelmannii Sunburst 
myriostigma tetragona fendleri Tulip 
mixed melanocentra Vive Rouge 
ornatum rectispinus NE 
tispi bust anda 
BINGHAMIA Pree ate | ) 
australis Bas aS aaau Seed of Epiphyllum es do not 
reproau Z to. ¢ h, 
BORZICACTUS ECHINOMASTUS igs pet a a i piees eM 
humboldtii erectocentrus ties may originate. The name given 
CARNEGIEA ECHINOPSIS here is of the plant which bore the 
gigantea ancistrophora fruit, the pollen parent being se- 
CEPHALOCEREUS campylacantha lected by the bees. 
aslerde hamatacantna ERIOCEREUS 
hybrids Saban fe 
CEREUS leucantha oP. ay i 
mixed and hybrids tubiflora ABER 
CLEISTOCACTUS FESS Ri eM Streets pomanensis 
te Ackermannii Rae 
aureispinus enn ortuosa 
baumannii 5 ESPOSTOA 
Autumn ets 
CORY PHANTHA Bella 
echinus Cantabile (Henry oe 
macromeris Conway’s Giant Se aM Pe: 
muehlenpfordtii Dante FEROCACTUS 
neo-mexicana Deutsche Kaiserin acanthodes var. aurea 
pallida Flamingo wislizenii 
