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Cactus flagelliformis or Creeping
Cereus
Cactus flagelliformis. Creeping Cereus
Class and Order
Icosandria Monogynia
Generic Character
Calyx 1-phyllus, superus, imbricatus. Corolla multiplex.
Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma
Specific Character
CACTUS flagelliformis repens decemangularis. Linn. Syst. Vegetab.
ed. 14 p. 460.
CEREUS flagelliformis. Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.
Grows spontaneously in South-America, and the West-Indies, flowers
in our dry stoves early in June, is tolerably hardy, and will thrive
even in a common green-house, that has a flue to keep out the severe
frosts.
It is superior to all its congeners in the brilliancy of its color,
nor are its blossoms so fugacious as many of the other species.
No plant is more easily propagated by cuttings; these Miller
recommends to be laid by in a dry place for a fortnight, or three
weeks, then to be planted in pots, filled with a mixture of loam and
lime rubbish, having some stones laid in the bottom of the pot to
drain off the moisture, and afterwards plunged into a gentle hot-bed
of Tanners bark, to facilitate their rooting, giving them once a
week a gentle watering: this business to be done the beginning of
July.
It is seldom that this plant perfects its seeds in this country:
Miller relates that it has borne fruit in Chelsea gardens.
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