Cactaceous plants have much to recommend them to lovers of the curious and beautiful, but the majority also possess another very valuable character, i. e., they are easily grown, so easily in fact that the cottager who can only devote a small space to them in his window may, and often does, grow many of them as successfully as the greatest magnate in Europe with all the most elaborate horticultural appliances at his command. In the dry and heated atmosphere of a room, which is so trying to most plants, they are perfectly at home, and their demands upon the attention of their host are so slight they may be left for weeks, nay months, without the smallest supply of water. It is not surprising, therefore, that many of the cactuses are favorites with dwellers in English towns, and many a toiler has had his heart lightened by a sight of the lovely flowers produced by his window "cactus," or has felt the pleasure of exhibiting his vegetable curiosities to his friends. Amateurs, too, in many other grades of life, have found in the cultivation of these plants the satisfaction which is derived from the constant study of the wonderful phases of plant existence; and though it can never be expected that they will rise to a popularity approaching that of the rose, yet there is a steadily increasing demand for them, and several nurserymen now make a specialty of them. - Lewis Castle.