Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — She Cultivates the Cactus. [ARTICLE]

She Cultivates the Cactus.

[Mrs. A. B. Nickels, of Laredo, Texas, makes a business of cultivating cacti. She has several acres devoted to these curious plants, of which she has morethan a hundred different varieties. In the hot, dry climate of. Texas, few greenhouses are required for this business, and most of the plants are grown out of doors. The little water needed is supplied by irrigating ditches, and an awning protects them, when necessary, from the too great heat of the sun. But few of the cacti are raised from seed, and the new specimens are hunted and brought in by native Mexicans for n small compensation.—[Boston Transcript.