CHAPTER XVIII.


TEMPERATURES.

O enable growers to make a selection of species according to the accommodation that can be afforded for Cactuses, all that are described in this book are here classified in three groups: (1) Species which thrive in a cool-house or frame; (2) Species which can only be successfully grown in a warm house or stove; and (3) Species which are hardy in the more favoured portions of the United Kingdom.

COOL-HOUSE OR FRAME.

Temperature: Summer, that of the open air.
Temperature: Winter—day, 50 deg. to 60 deg.; night, 40 deg. to 45 deg.

Cereus Berlandieri.Cereus speciosissimus
Cereus Blankii.Echinocactus brevihamatus
Cereus caespitosus.Echinocactus centeterius.
Cereus cirrhiferus.Echinocactus cinnabarinus.
Cereus ctenoides.Echinocactus Cummingii.
Cereus enneacanthus.Echinocactus echidne.
Cereus flagelliformis.Echinocactus Emoryi.
Cereus Leeanus.Echinocactus gibbosus.
Cereus leptacanthus.Echinocactus hexaedrophorus.
Cereus multiplex.Echinocactus Leeanus.
Cereus paucispinus.Echinocactus Mackieanus.
Cereus pentalophus.Echinocactus mamillarioides.
Cereus polyacanthus.Echinocactus rhodophthalmus.
Cereus procumbens.Echinocactus texensis.
Cereus reductus.Echinocactus uncinatus.