16 FHE STORY *ORSCACTUS 

The most unusual cactus is the Lophophoria williamsii (87) or “Peyote” as 
the Indians call it. In Mexico, it is known as the “Mescal Button,” also 
“wokowi.” Certain Indian tribes call it “Kamaba’’ and others “Hikuli.” The 
American frontiersmen called it “Dry Whiskey.’’ This cactus contains a nar- 
cotic, anhalonium alkaloid lophophorine, which acts on the optic nerve making 
the user have beautiful hallucinations and all objects take on gorgeous hues. 
The flowers are pale pink. Known as Dumpling Cactus now and Sacred Mush- 
room by the first Spanish Padres it is quite famous. 
We have a new species of Ferocactus which so resembles the Ferocactus un- 
cinatus that the only difference, when not in bloom is that the spines are tipped 
a yellow color instead of the chocolate-brown. The flowers are yellow and the 
seed pods are yellow instead of chocolate-brown or reddish-brown. We call 
this plant Ferocactus tabori (79) in honor of Grace Tabor, for her untiring 
labor in the fields of floraculture. This plant has been found in twenty square 
miles of the Hueco Mountains of Texas. Only three specimens are known to 
exist in collections. (79) Ferocactus uncinatus right, Ferocactus tabori center, 
Ferocactus hybrid left. 
Another new cactus is a Thelocactus which we will describe later as Thelo- 
cactus butleri in honor of Mr. Burridge Butler, publisher of the ‘‘Prairie Farmer” 
because of his work among the farmers of the Middle West. 
Mrs Harry T. Johnson of Oklahoma City writes that the five finest Okla- 
homa species of Echinocereus are the following: 
E. albispinus—The smallest of our Echinocereus. Most hardy and easiest 
to grow. Also the rarest. Likes partial shade and Oak leaf mold. 
E. purpurius—Looks like perbellis but makes a much larger plant. Grows 
in gypsum soil and heavy red clay. Likes some shade. Is found in washes 
between mountains. 
E. baileyi (longispinus)—Grows on granite mountain tops in decomposed 
ground. Full sun. 
E. oklahomeinsis—Full sun. Lime stone gravel and leaf mold. 
E. richenbachii—Full sun. Grows on lime stone mountans tops. 
These plants are hardy at zero temperature if established in a well drained 
place. 
The collection of cacti at Cactus Acres was started by a Mrs. Pierson at 
Laredo, Texas. In 1872 she made a trip into Mexico and fell in love with the 
Flora of that country and brought out several cacti for her garden and in the 
years that followed, she imported several thousand plants. 
At her death, the plants were purchased and moved to EI Paso, Texas by the 
late Mr. Herbert Potter, and just before his death the plants were sold to C. 
Leasure the present owner. Two of the original plants brought out of Mexico 
by Mrs. Pierson in 1872 are known to be alive and growing and several of the 
species have been preserved by means of cuttings and partitions. 
There are at present slightly over a thousand varieties of exotic plants at 
Cactus Acres and they range in species from the Astrophytum (83) to the 
Zygocactus, and in size from the Corypantha minima of one-half inch in height 
to the Carnegiea gigantea which grows to a height of over fifty feet. Stop and 
visit us if out El Paso way. 
If this littke book has helped you, write us and if you think it should be 
enlarged, tell us why. Any suggestions you will send will be kindly appreciated 
or if you know of some fact about cacti which is not in this book, we would like 
to hear from you. If you have a friend who may be interested in this book, 
send us his address. 
Sincerely, 
OHN,HicKs Lfasure. E/ Paso, Texas 
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