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Title: Cactus Culture For Amateurs
Being Descriptions Of The Various Cactuses Grown In This Country,
With Full And Practical Instructions For Their Successful Cultivation

Author: W. Watson

Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #13357]

Language: English

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CACTUS CULTURE
FOR AMATEURS:

BEING

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VARIOUS CACTUSES
GROWN IN THIS COUNTRY.

with

FULL AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR
THEIR SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION.

By W. WATSON,
Assistant Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

LONDON:
L. UPCOTT GILL, 170, STRAND, W.C.

1889.

[Illustration: FIG. 1.--A COLLECTION OF CACTUSES. Frontispiece.]

PREFACE

The idea that Cactuses were seldom seen in English gardens, because so
little was known about their cultivation and management, suggested to
the Publisher of this book that a series of chapters on the best kinds,
and how to grow them successfully, would be useful. These chapters were
written for and published in The Bazaar, in 1885 and following years.
Some alterations and additions have been made, and the whole is now
offered as a thoroughly practical and descriptive work on the subject.

The descriptions are as simple and complete as they could be made; the
names here used are those adopted at Kew; and the cultural directions
are as full and detailed as is necessary. No species or variety is
omitted which is known to be in cultivation, or of sufficient interest
to be introduced. The many excellent figures of Cactuses in the
Botanical Magazine (Bot. Mag.) are referred to under each species
described, except in those cases where a complete figure is given in
this book. My claims to be heard as a teacher in this department are
based on an experience of ten years in the care and cultivation of the
large collection of Cactuses at Kew.

Whatever the shortcomings of my share of the work may be, I feel certain
that the numerous and excellent illustrations w