Portions of cactuses and pine-apples are sometimes allowed to lie in the sun from two to four weeks before planting.
The pseudo-bulbs of orchids, crowns of pine-apples and cuttings of cactuses are examples.
Think of my little scraggly geraniums and oleanders and cactuses I've carried round in my hands all winter and been proud on.
The scenery along the Pearl River is not very interesting except the rice fields, banana groves with pagodas risin' amongst 'em anon or oftener, and the strange tropical foliage, cactuses that we raise in little jars riz up here like trees.
Desert annuals do not store up water as the cactuses do.
Cactuses have done away with leaves altogether, thus reducing their surface area and cutting down on moisture loss.
Illustration: Distinctive pads of pricklypear cactus make this most ubiquitous of cactuses readily recognizable across its extensive range, which encompasses Southwest deserts and the Potomac River banks near Washington, D.
Illustration: The Panther Path, a self-guiding nature trail outside the visitor center, introduces you to cactuses and other desert plants of the park.
Give me the oranges and lemons, and you can have all the palms and the cactuses and the olives.
Huge columns of cactuses and monster aloes may be seen rising above the top of the walls, like relics of a geologic flora contemporaneous with the age of the extinct volcanoes around.
These fleshy weeds resemble the cactuses in being succulent and thick-skinned but they differ from them in their curious ability to live upon very salt and soda-laden water.
Most of these fallacious pseudo-cactuses are really spurges or euphorbias by family.
Quaint, shapeless, succulent, jointed, the cactuses look at first sight as if they were all leaves, and had no stem or trunk worth mentioning.
They are the worst of all; I could use almost as much of my readers' time in describing different cactuses as I used of my own in picking them out of my flesh after the peccary hunt was over, but I forbear.
Our Yaqui guide was valiantly to the front, making leaps over cactuses that would have shamed a kangaroo, and keeping well ahead of the horses.
The cactuses were here from sixteen to seventeen feet high, and so close together that I could not go a foot into them.
The boldest came within a hundred and twenty yards of me, while the others shot some dozen arrows at me, some of which wounded the sappy cactuses around me.
Cactuses must have a sunny position, and plenty of water.
Cactuses should be kept in a sunny situation, and have plenty of water.
What aloes and cactuses on what sun-smitten rocks!
Yuccas and cactuses flourish vigorously in the open air, and even fan-palms manage to thrive the year round in cosy corners.
A good carriage road ascends it to the top by leafy gradients, and leads to an open platform on the summit, now converted into charming gardens, rich with palms and aloes and cactuses and bright southern flowers.
The reason for this bellicose disposition on the part of the cactuses is a tolerably easy one to guess.
As far as their leaf-like stems go, the main object in life of the cactuses is--not to get eaten.
Cactuses are the hedgehogs of the vegetable world; their motto is Nemo me impune lacessit.
I need hardly say that, as a matter of plain historical fact, neither cactuses nor agaves were known in Europe till long after Christopher Columbus had steered his wandering bark to the sandy shores of Cat's Island in the Bahamas.
But why are cactuses so almost universally prickly?
Cactuses of many species complete the picture of the vegetation in this beautiful spot.
Round the Indian cottages were cactuses with splendid crimson flowers, daturas with brilliant white blossoms, palm- and fruit-trees of fifty kinds.
The cactuses reach the height of fifteen feet, and grow in the form of candelabra, like the euphorbia of Africa.
Cylindric and very lofty cactuses crown the top of the mountains, and give a peculiar physiognomy to this tropical landscape.
The sight of the trees alone is sufficient to remind the navigator that he has reached an American coast; for these cactuses are as exclusively peculiar to the New World, as the heaths are to the Old.
Cylindrical cactuses rose here and there in the form of candelabra.
There are two simple methods of treatment that Cactuses should receive, namely: First, keep the soil about them constantly dry, and keep them in a warm place.
Passing first through a section covered with a magnificent growth of tree cactuses of two species, in fine fruit and flower, we found the vegetation varied as we mounted, and at last came up among the pines.
Here the valley began to close in upon us and its slopes were sprinkled with great cushion cactuses in strange and grotesque forms.
Gigantic cactuses surround the town, and cocoa palms rise to great heights within it.
A scanty growth of what looked like camel grass, interspersed euphorbias and cactuses of great height, was all that met the eye.
Nature has endowed Cactuses with a skin similar to what she clothes many succulent fruits with, such as the Apple, Plum, Peach, &c.
It is the only genus ofCactuses that has representatives in the Old World, excluding, of course, those which have been introduced by man.
For the greenhouse proper, Cactuses are well adapted, either as the sole occupants or as suitable for such positions as are afforded by shelves or baskets placed near the roof glass.
It is possible to preserve most Cactuses alive by keeping them constantly growing; but, with very few exceptions, such treatment prevents the plants from flowering.
This species (which is probably a native of Mexico) is deserving of a place in collections of Cactuses because of the character of its spines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cactuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
