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Cactus Culture for Amateurs

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Cactus Culture for Amateurs

William Watson

236 pages~4 hr 43 min read73 chapters$4.99
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A cactus asks little and rewards patience with astonishing flowers, and Kew's William Watson shows how. His guide describes the cactuses grown by amateurs and gives full, practical instruction on keeping them thriving indoors and out. Clear cultivation advice from a Royal Botanic Gardens hand. For the windowsill grower ready to coax bloom from something spiny and strange.

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73 chapters

  1. 1CACTUS CULTURE
  2. 2FOR AMATEURS:
  3. 3DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VARIOUS CACTUSES GROWN IN THIS COUNTRY.
  4. 4FULL AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THEIR SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION
  5. 5Assistant Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. 6LONDON: L. UPCOTT GILL, 170, STRAND, W.C.
  7. 7PREFACE
  8. 8CONTENTS.
  9. 9CACTUS CULTURE
  10. 10FOR AMATEURS
  11. 11CHAPTER I
  12. 12INTRODUCTION.
  13. 13CHAPTER II.
  14. 14BOTANICAL CHARACTERS.
  15. 15CHAPTER III.
  16. 16CULTIVATION.
  17. 17CHAPTER IV.
  18. 18PROPAGATION.

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