MAGNOLIA AND CACTI.
L.C.—Magnolias do not require any regular pruning, and like many hard-wooded trees, are nst very partial to being cut back into old wood, as the wpunds, if of any
size, do not readily heal over. Any pruning necessary should be done in the summer and confined to shortening small twigs or cutting back to side branches. Regarding the cactus, which you say is nearly dead, I have no firsthand experience with these plants, but if yours is the ordinary redflowered cactus it requires only the same treatment as any other pot plant. One grower writes: "Cacti are a law unto themselves. If they choose to go to sleep for months or even years they do so, then some changed condition wakes them up and they start to grow rapidly, no one can tell wbyj' -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 29
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137MAGNOLIA AND CACTI. Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 29
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