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Where it was announced ten days previous that the cereus would bloom, August, 1888.
We own we felt a little curious, / To see the rare night blooming cereus, / And as if 'twas divine anointed, / It came in bloom at the time appointed, / And gorgeous too their oleander, / None 'ere saw shrub blossom grander.