. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. ntainous tracts—all abound, eachcovered with its appropriate vegetation. The Eoyal Garden atKew, near London,has lately received from Mr. Staine, a col-lector employed in Mexico, some specimensof the Cactus family, which are of enormousproportions. The district where Mr. Staine found these monster Cacti, is in the neighborhoodof San Luis Potosi. The division of theCactus family, called EchiTWcactus, Hedge-hog Cactus, (from eckinos, a hedgehog,) isnaturally almost entirely confined to Mexico,and abounds in gigantic proportions in th
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. ntainous tracts—all abound, eachcovered with its appropriate vegetation. The Eoyal Garden atKew, near London,has lately received from Mr. Staine, a col-lector employed in Mexico, some specimensof the Cactus family, which are of enormousproportions. The district where Mr. Staine found these monster Cacti, is in the neighborhoodof San Luis Potosi. The division of theCactus family, called EchiTWcactus, Hedge-hog Cactus, (from eckinos, a hedgehog,) isnaturally almost entirely confined to Mexico,and abounds in gigantic proportions in theneighborhood of San Luis Potosi. The first large specimen, which sent to the Kew gardens, proved tobe a new species, and was named by SirWm. Hooker, Echinocactus stanesii, in honorof its discoverer. It was the largest of the • One-third more varieties were shown at the DutchessCounty, N. Y., Hortiouhural Societys exhibition in June last,all of the finest quality—Black Tartarians three inches In cir-cumference.—Ed. 224 CTANT MEXICAN Fig. CO. genus ever seen in Europe, weighing, whenthe roots were entirely free from earth,about two hundred and fifty pounds. , from the Revue Horticole, gives an ac-curate view of this species. It arrived atKew in excellent condition, and a short timeafterwards produced from its apex about onehundred fine orange-colored blossoms, re-sembling those of Opuntia. We are sorry The Giant Mexican. Cactus, (Echinocactus stanesii.) to add, however, that it has since decayedand perished. This first plant, however, is but a pigmycompared with one which Mr. Staine hassince forwarded to Kew. The latter mon-ster specimen, was selected among greatnumbers which grow in the district referredto. It was necessary to employ twentymen, with the aid of levers, to raise this HOW TO RENOVATE AN OUTCAST. 225 great thorny plant upon the car or chariot,which was to transport it to Vera Cruz, thenearest seaport. The weight of this re-markable
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