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DAM’S CHIN 
If you want lovely blossoms do not fail to have this 
fine plant. Gymnocalycium Damsii is perhaps the eas- 
iest cactus to flower and grows well under a great vari- 
ety of conditions. Will teke considerable water in sum- 
mer. Flowers Pale tinged pink. Large 4 years old, 
2” - 24%4"" — 50c. Smaller 5 
flowering 3 Cc 
Notocactus Schumannianus. Giant Ball. A 
handsome species for specimens. Reported to 5’ 
tall. Globular to cylindric with vellow spines. 
Flowers large, pale yellow. 3” - 314” — $1.25. 
SmiallengT 56 arn aei st ete ee pee eee er 50c. 
Notocactus submammulosus. Similar to N. 
mammulosus. 3” - 314” Specimens — $1.25. 2” 
—75e¢. 12” —50e. Smaller....2 22. 35¢ 
Notocactus tabularis. Page 12. 
OROYA 
A monotypic genus from the high Andean 
region above Lima, Peru. Globular, solitary, 
ribbed plants with elongated areoles and very 
short-funneiform flowers. Near Matucana and 
Arequipa but differing in the short tube. The 
plants at Oroya are very large up to 12” often 
cespitose through injury and are atypical. Typi- 
cal plants are found in grass and rock on the 
surrounding slopes and passes at 13,500’, 3”- 
5” in diameter with more pectinate spines. 
Oroya peruviana. Small__...........-222-22-2. 2... $1 
JOHNSON’S CACTUS FOOD | 
A well balanced food for Cacti and Succu- 
lents. 
WZ ROUITI GO =D al Gi sees ee wp ese ee ee era 50c 
2e\DOUNG) bates Reser aee eek ee ee $1.00 
OBREGONIA DENEGRII 
A monotypic genus of Mexican cacti close to Ariocar- 
pus. It looks quite different but technically is hard to 
differentiate. The flowers are very pretty with their 
yellow stamens and white petals. The tubercles are tri- 
angular, hard, pale green and tipped with a few curl- 
ing, flexible spines. Does well in sand and leafmold. 
Likes a sunny or well lighted position. 
Mature imports each.......... PA See ee ee Ps $2.00 
PYRRHOCACTUS 
FLAME CACTI 
A genus segregated by Berger in 1929 from 
Britton & Roses’s Malacocarpus. It is very close 
to Neoporteria but plants are generally more 
heavily spined and flowers short-funnelform. In 
P. Straussianus the tube is gibbous. In Neo- 
porteria nigricans the flowers are like Pyrrho- 
cactus and so are the spines. A distinct divid- 
ing line is difficult to draw. They are easily 
grown plants of very slow: growth liking a light 
or sunny position and well drained soil. Stand 
temperatures to 20° without injury when dor- 
mant. 
Pyrrhocactus tuberisulcatus (P. horridus. P. 
Soehrensii) A splendid species very strongly 
spined, with reddish-yellow flowers borne in a 
ring about the top. 2” —75e. Smaller_.__.... 50c 
Pyrrhocactus curvispinus. Flowers pale red- 
dish yellow, spines slender tipped with black. 
Plant inclined to be very cespitose. Each... $1 
STENOCACTUS 
Echinofossulocactus B. & R. 
A distinct and beautiful genus with no very 
close relatives. The plants are globular, soli- 
tary, well spined and with up to 100 thin, often 
wavy ribs. The only exception is the type, S. 
coptonogonus, with about 10 ribs. The pretty, 
pink, purple or white, blossoms are generally 
striped, campanulate, the tube and ovary with 
scarious scales, naked in the axils. Fruit small, 
globular, dehiscing by splitting the seeds ooz- 
ing out, stuck together with mucilage which 
the dew and rain dissolves allowing the seeds 
to fall. Give them the same treatment as Mam- 
illaria which they roughly resemble. Splendid 
plants of easy culture and very attractive. 
There are a great many kinds and the nomen- 
clature is very mixed up as the plants are vari- 
able. Many ‘‘species’’ are pernaps but geo- 
graphical variations though just as interesting 
as any. 
STENOCACTUS 
The plants offered are 3-4 years old and 
many flowered in 1951. 
Stenocactus albatus. 1”. 40c 
Stenocactus anfractuosus. | 1/5” - 2” 75c.___ 50c 
Stenocactus arrigens. 1” - 11/9”__........-.--... 50c 
Stenocactus carneus. 1” - ]1/”"__ Pe merece Se 50c 
Stenocactus coptonogonus. 2” — 75c. 1”... 40c 
Stenocactus debilispinus. 1”... 50c 
Stenocactus densispinus. 1” - 114”__.......... 50c 
Stenocactus flexispinus. 1” 50c 
Stenocactus hastatus. 1”. 40c 
Stenocactus Lloydii. 1”... 35c 
Stenocactus multicostatus. Large flowering 
$1.50 
Stenocactus Melmsianus. 1” - 11/4”... 50c 
Stenocactus obvaliatus. 1” - 11/5”... 50c 
Stenocactus Ochoterenaus. Large OS cA 
Stenocactus pentacanthus. 11/4”... 50c 
Stenocactus phyllacanthus. 2” 75c. |] 1/2”... 50c 
Stenocactus robustus. 11/,” 50c. Smaller 1” 35c 
Stenocactus sphacelatus. 1” - 11/2” 
Stenocactus stenogonus. |” - 114”... 
Stenocactus undulatus. 1” - | 1/4”... 
Stenocactus. Nice plants my choice, named 40c 
DENMOZA 
=A peculiar Chilean genus with long, S-shaped, 
tubular, closed, red flowers, the tube closed 
with white wool, stamens and stigma exserted: 
throat, short tube and ovary covered with im- 
bricated, lanceolate scales in the axils of which 
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SAND DOLLAR 
One of the oddest cacti, entirely spineless and freely 
bearing large yellow blossoms with a red throat. Very 
scarce even in the wilds where it grows scattered thinly 
on the desert mesas. Best potted in a very porous soil 
or in sand and leafmold, watering lightly when dry. 
Give it a very light position with some sun. It flowers 
from May to October. Large specimens 65c 
90c. Smaller 2” - 24%” each... 
are silky hairs. Fruit globular, dry, splitting 
when ripe. Plant globular, with age cylindric 
to 4’; areoles felted; spines on young plants 
stout, curved. Likes a rich, porous soil, mod- 
erate waterings and a sunny location. 
Denmoza rhodacantha. 4” - 6” each_.._.... $4 
PARODIA 
A lovely genus first described by Britton & 
Rose under Hickenia. A distinct group appar- 
ently not intergrading with the related genera, 
Frailia, Notocactus and Malacocarpus. Plants 
solitary, globose to cylindric, umbillicate with 
spiralled ribs which are tuberculate, sometimes 
with nipples as distinct as Mamillaria. Areoles 
woolly when young, proximate, spines straight 
or more often with one hooked central. Flow- 
ers at apex, campanulate with very short tube, 
limb broad, the petals in various shades of yel- 
low and red. Scales on ovary and tube small, 
axils with wool and bristles. Fruit small, thin 
walled, splitting above the base to free the 
small seeds with their white, corky hilum. A 
very satisfactory group for the collector as the 
plants are easily grown, small, elegant in ap- 
pearance and often bright spined. Many of 
them are very free in flower. Same treatment 
as for Mamillarias. All the species | know stand 
temperatures to 20° 
Parodia aureispina. This charming species is 
pictured in color on page 15. 
Parodia chrysacanthion. A handsome bright 
yellow-spined species. Spines straight, acicular. 
Of slow growth. Flowers pale yellow. Plants 
[taest 1 Vo 5 Oe Sarid as ae cen bee ee eee Dee ae 35c¢ 
Parodia mutabilis. Handsome with reddish, 
hooked central. Flowers brilliant orange yellow 
often with red throat. Page 12. 
Parodia sanguiniflora. Page 16. 
MELON CACTUS 
A fine Barrel Cactus with yellow and red, strongly 
curved spines. Easily grown and one of the most pop- 
ular of this fine group. Ferocactus melocactiformis has 
yellow flowers and pale, bluish-green body contrasting 
well with the colored spines. Grows quickly in sandy 
soil in a sunny or well lighted 5 
position, Bach c 
