. My garden in summer . imple experi-ment of sticking a pin in one of its joints, which in-stantly exudes the milky juice that betrays its Euphorbias in bewilderingly different forms standon the wall; there you will find E. antiquorum with hornydark brown edges armed with thorns round its curiousfive-sided joints, and Et cereiformis pretending its best to bea Cereus, while E. pendulas cylindrical joints are so manyinches in length that they need support. Even the twoends of the stone seat in the centre of the terrace aremade to bear a group of choice and small succulents, thelar
. My garden in summer . imple experi-ment of sticking a pin in one of its joints, which in-stantly exudes the milky juice that betrays its Euphorbias in bewilderingly different forms standon the wall; there you will find E. antiquorum with hornydark brown edges armed with thorns round its curiousfive-sided joints, and Et cereiformis pretending its best to bea Cereus, while E. pendulas cylindrical joints are so manyinches in length that they need support. Even the twoends of the stone seat in the centre of the terrace aremade to bear a group of choice and small succulents, thelarge lead vases that stand in the centre of each preventingany large specimen sharing their perch. So here are smallMesembryanthemums such as M. stellatum and M. barbatum,and Mamraillarias such as M. elongata, like a pot full ofthimbles of all sizes. These cactacean thimbles are beautifully decoratedwith brilliantly white, or yellow and white, stars, formed ofradiating tufts of prickles, and so wonderfully symmetrical 198. Succulents both in their fashioning and in their arrangement roundthe thimble as to be a joy for ever to look at beauty is even greater when a ring of bright redberries ornaments the business end of the thimble, havingreplaced the rather dingy yellow and brown perfossa generally has an honoured place here,quite at the edge, so that its growths may hang free of thestone moulding. Its leaves are opposite, and the two ineach pair are so thoroughly fused together as to look likeone, and as though the woody stem pierced through itscentre, much like those sticks of green and red crystalliseddainties that are packed along the sides of boxes of mixedpreserved fruits ; but as the Crassulas leaves are not sogay they remind me quite as much of sticks of cats meat,and I fear the plant is generally spoken of as the CatsMeat Crassula here. A mixed group on the wall containsCrassula (once Rochea) falcata as background ; its great blue-green scim
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