Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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CACTUS CULTURE
FOR AMATEURS:
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VARIOUS CACTUSES GROWN IN THIS COUNTRY.
FULL AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THEIR SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION
Assistant Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
LONDON: L. UPCOTT GILL, 170, STRAND, W.C.
PREFACE
CONTENTS.
CACTUS CULTURE
FOR AMATEURS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER II.
BOTANICAL CHARACTERS.
CHAPTER III.
CULTIVATION.
CHAPTER IV.
PROPAGATION.
CHAPTER V.
THE GENUS EPIPHYLLUM.
SPECIES.
VARIETIES.
CHAPTER VI.
THE GENUS PHYLLOCACTUS.
(From phyllon, a leaf, and Cactus).
SPECIES.
HYBRIDS AND VARIETIES.
CHAPTER VII.
THE GENUS CEREUS.
THE NIGHT-FLOWERING SPECIES.
THE SEMI-SCANDENT SPECIES.
THE GLOBOSE AND COLUMNAR STEMMED SPECIES.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GENUS ECHINOCACTUS.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER IX.
THE GENUS ECHINOPSIS.
(From echinos, a hedgehog, and opsis, like.)
SPECIES.
CHAPTER X.
THE GENUS MELOCACTUS.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XI.
THE GENUS PILOCEREUS.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XII.
THE GENUS MAMILLARIA.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE GENUS LEUCHTENBERGIA.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE GENUS PELECYPHORA.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XV.
THE GENUS OPUNTIA.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE GENUS PERESKIA.
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE GENUS RHIPSALIS
SPECIES.
CHAPTER XVIII.
TEMPERATURES.
OUTDOOR.
CHAPTER XIX.
DEALERS IN CACTUSES.
GERMANY.
FRANCE.
BELGIUM.
AMERICA.
SPECIES INDEX
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