The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . .The others that are scattered throughare O. leucotricha, O. crassa and There is quite a collec-tion of these in one of the other cac-tus houses. The group of cannon balls as somecall them represent the genus echin-ocactus. For the most part these areglobular in shape, though some get ashigh as 6 or 8 feet, and are denselycovered with spines which in some spe-cies assume huge proportions. Theflowers which are usually borne on theapex are in most instances brightly col-ored. They are very closely allied tothe cereus, but bota
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . .The others that are scattered throughare O. leucotricha, O. crassa and There is quite a collec-tion of these in one of the other cac-tus houses. The group of cannon balls as somecall them represent the genus echin-ocactus. For the most part these areglobular in shape, though some get ashigh as 6 or 8 feet, and are denselycovered with spines which in some spe-cies assume huge proportions. Theflowers which are usually borne on theapex are in most instances brightly col-ored. They are very closely allied tothe cereus, but botanists claim that theycan separate the two genera by theirseed vessels; but when not in flowerthere is very little from their more con-spicuous characteristics to distinguishone from the other. The large plant at the top is On the same level is the bar-re! cactus or E. Wislizeni. Directly infront of E. Emoryi is E. here and there are the golden-spined E. Grusoni and such others asE. peninsulae, E, pilosus and that beau-. CACTI AT THE MISSOURI BOTANIC GARDENS, ST. Fig. 3.—Opuntias and echinocicti. LOUIS, MO. mal. They grow in the very poorest ofsoil and even on bare rock, and as theygrow very fast are much used in Africa,Australia and India for fences. The flowers are produced on theedges of the stems, which usually areflat, but in some species are not. as for tiful red-spined travelers plant or E. Lecontei, E. ingens andmany others. There is also a large group of mamil-larias in this house, one corner of whichcan be seen on the left of figure 2. M. 268 The American Florist. Sept. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, The schedule of the 1907 spring exhi-bitions of the Massachusets Horticultur-al society has been issued. Some note-worthy features of interest are thebringing out of several old-time favor-ites which have not been seen in the listsfor many years, as well as some novel-ties which appear for the first these a
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