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soil line and the top of the pot. This will permit the addition of 
a little fresh potting mixture or fertilizer each year without 
disturbing the roots nor yet getting the pot too full for proper 
watering. Heavy fertilizing is not to be advised. Do not allow 
the plants to go through a long dry spell without watering, or 
at least spraying the foliage. 
Unrooted cuttings should be planted at once to the depth of 
one-third their length, in SLIGHTLY moist peat and sand using 
a half and half mixture. They should be kept in a shady place 
and, if possible, in a moist atmosphere, for rooting. The cuttings 
may remain for as long as a year in the peat and sand without 
injury; they are epiphytic, therefore do not require nearly the 
amount of root feeding that ferns and begonias do. 
TRELLISING 
There is no trellissing needed with these plants except for 
those grafted on tall standards. These should be supported as 
their tops increase in size. A framework simulating an umbrella 
is often used. 
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There are approximately 75 forms of the Link-leaf Epiphytic 
Cactus mentioned in publications (but not in detail), during 
the past century. Many are now either lost or found only in 
private gardens with no data as to their origination and only a 
meagre description. Apparently only a very few of these are 
species (wild forms) found in the Western Hemisphere, while 
the others are variations. 
We are checking all that we can find. As fast as we secure 
sufficient propagation of a variety and its identity is established, 
we will release it to our customers. We have about 30 varieties 
under observation, at present, but not all will prove sufficiently 
different in growth or flower to merit the consideration of the 
general public. 
ZYGOCACTUS truncatus 
VARIETY BICOLOR (Thanksgiving) —Tube of flower white 
with slight edges of purple. Petal edges and tips deep 
rose. Flowers the earliest of all—even in October. Rooted 
cuttings 50Oc. 
VARIETY SALMONEUM—Petals one shade of salmon pink 
with very little white in the tube of flower. Flowers as 
late as January. 
Rooted cuttings 50c. Grafted $1.00. 

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