. My garden in summer . hose animals—echinos in Greek doing duty for boththe hedgehog and the sea-urchin. Their flowers are verylarge, and mostly white or pale rose-colour, and appear inJuly and August from the upper portions of the begin life as grey, furry knobs not unlike the SallowblossotfiS that constitute Palm Sunday Palm —but theysoon lengthen out to four inches or more of narrow tube,and then at last the upper portion swells out into a fat,grey bud, and finally opens late one afternoon into a largestar-shaped bloom with a hollow throat. The first nightthe anthers shed their p
. My garden in summer . hose animals—echinos in Greek doing duty for boththe hedgehog and the sea-urchin. Their flowers are verylarge, and mostly white or pale rose-colour, and appear inJuly and August from the upper portions of the begin life as grey, furry knobs not unlike the SallowblossotfiS that constitute Palm Sunday Palm —but theysoon lengthen out to four inches or more of narrow tube,and then at last the upper portion swells out into a fat,grey bud, and finally opens late one afternoon into a largestar-shaped bloom with a hollow throat. The first nightthe anthers shed their pollen and the flower remains infull beauty next day, but is not quite so widely opened asduring the evening hours. The second night the stigmaopens, and would in nature be dusted with pollen from afirst-night blossom, collected and carried by some largemoth, and cross pollination would be thereby noon on the following day the flower begins toflag, gradually closes, and becomes flabby and dies off, i88. Cereiis paucispinus. (See pi 1S7.) Succulents but an old plant will provide four or more flowers in aseason. All the Echinopsis forms are slightly tender here,and better suited for growing in pots, to stand out inSummer on walls and steps. Still, I have a good colonyof them, but in much less variety than formerly, only thehardiest being left of the old group of which I was soproud before certain bad seasons killed some of theplants, for I have not yet recovered heart to try newerforms. Many Opuntias are very hardy, and the most reliableof the showy-flowered kinds are the varieties of O. caman-chica, of which something like a dozen are known, mostof which I have tried, and nearly all are flourishingwell. The only really hardy one with large growths isO. cantabrigensis, of which there is such a fine specimen inthe open in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, from whichit was described and named by Mr. Lynch, who kindlygave me a piece of it that is now growing into a lar
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