Mr. A. Blanc writes:" Mr. Bassett asks for a hardy red blooming Opuntia, to plant with the native yellow-flowered Jersey variety. I send you a sample of a variety sent to me from Montana, and said to be a pink flowering kind, but I would not vouch for it - not knowing the name of it; do you? "

[The piece sent is Opuntia Missouriensis, of which there are darkish varieties in the Rocky Mountain regions, as well as pure yellow - but we never saw it make flowers under culture. - Ed. G. M].