Special Editions and Their Contents

2008 SPECIAL EDITION
Mailing October 1st with November issue
56 pages, no commercial ads.
Canada $8.00 USA US$8.00 Other US$8.00
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2007 SPECIAL EDITION
52 pages, no commercial ads.
Canada $7.00 USA US$7.00 Other US$7.00
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2000 MILLENNIUM SPECIAL EDITION
60 pages, well illustrated.
Questions and answers on over 200 topics.
Canada $6.00 USA US$6.00 Other US$6.00
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CONTENTS OF OUR SPECIAL EDITION 2008

No commercial ads. Lots of photos.

  • Mystery Cover ....... Will it make you smile or make you cringe?
  • Welwitschia mirabilis: A living fossil and the loneliest plant in the world
  • Echinopsis (Lobivia) famatimensis
  • Cactus grafting and other neat stuff
  • Tissue culture of albino plants
  • Slugging it out with slugs: Banana slug
  • Plant tissue culture for home gardeners
  • Salt build-up can kill your plants
  • Adromischus cristatus
  • Adromischus marianae v. herrei
  • Growing from seed tips: Seed grown Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus
  • Duvalia pubescens
  • Parodia horstii (purpureus)
  • Fasciation
  • Cactus yarns: Ferocactus potsii, Lithops on a sliding scale: Lithops fulleri
  • Buggies
  • Spiralling in euphorbias: Why does it happen?
  • Euphorbia spiralis
  • Euphorbia handiensis
  • Aloe glauca, Aloe facts
  • Agave nizandensis: Reputed to flower in a pot
  • Precocious 'century plant' is flowering early
  • Pachycereus schottii
  • Opuntia phaecantha
  • Bromeliad Corner: Billbergias: B. nutans, B. pyramidalis, B. quesneliana
  • FREE E-book download: Intro to Bromeliads
  • Euphorbias confiscated
  • A story of two halves: Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus crest
  • Huernia aspera
  • That's gotta hurt !!! Cholla munching cows-spines and all.
    Iguana eating cactus
    Goat on Ferocactus
  • Agave weberi, the size of a small car
  • Beware of snakes !!
  • Growing difficult euphorbias: Euphorbia canariensis

Caudiciforms & Other Collectibles
  • Pelargonium ceratophyllum
  • Seed viability : Dioscorea, euphorbias, etc.
  • Africa's deserts: Environmental turnaround
  • Euphorbia inermis
  • Corallocarpus bainesii
Shorties:
Seed tip, Cartoons , Euphorbia tips, Free pots and saucers, Happy plants, Cacti named after women

Additional supplement

  • Mindboggling move of thousands of plants
    Margrit Bischofberger
  • Coccinia adoensis , C. trilobata (CUCURBITS)
  • Agave attenuata
  • Interesting Agave facts
  • Steve Hagerman: Grower of weird things
    Opuntia orbiculata
  • A. Blanc & Co.: Vintage collectible publication
  • Beware of Opuntia ficus-indica

CONTENTS OF OUR SPECIAL EDITION 2007

No commercial ads. Lots of photos.

  • Cover: Cleistocactus baumannii ssp. baumannii
  • Stenocereus thurberi
  • Agave cupreata
  • Agave striata, Agave mythology
  • Cereus aethiops (chalybaeus)
  • Euphorbia pulvinata
  • Aeonium lindleyi & Sempervivum tectorum
    Remedies for Euphorbia poison
    Sempervivum tectorum
  • Ceropegias stapeliiformis & C. serpentina
  • Echinopsis, etc. etc. etc.
    Echinopsis huascha
    Echinopsis (Trichocereus) sp.
  • Ariocarpus: Ariocarpus retusus
    Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus
  • Potential benefits of Aloe more than skin deep
    Cleopatra & Nefertitti
    Aloe ferox
    A. vera
    A. arborescens
    A. aristata
  • Bromeliad Corner: Billbergias
    Billbergia nutans: Brom Pests, pups, tips
  • Portulaca
  • Old print: Thelocactus bicolor
  • How to plant a Strawberry Jar
  • Carlsbad Caverns:
    Canyons, Caves, Cactus and Bats
  • Haworthia longiana, H. cooperi
  • Wonderful rebutias: Rebutia fulviseta
    R. flavistila
    R.margarethae
  • Shedding some light on Euphorbia phophorea
  • Duvalias: Duvalia polita
  • Prickly Pear delights for zoo animals

Caudiciforms & Other Collectibles
  • Delosperma (Mestoklema) napiforme
  • Brigshamia insignis, growing from seed
  • How to grow Euphorbia wilsonii
Shorties:
Euphorbia pulvinata, Snail damage on Epi, Spooky cactus, Plant facts, Need extra space?,
Pervert impaled on a cactus, Lithops Tipths

Additional supplement

  • Cartoon
  • Mammillaria decipiens ssp. camptotricha and M. decipiens
  • Speaking of birds' nests ....
    Mammillaria hahniana
  • Oddball: Agave filifera ssp microceps
  • Alluaudia procera
  • Aloe ciliaris var ciliaris
  • Old wood engraving: The Pithaya or giant cactus
  • CACTUS: A possible source of wealth
  • Kalanchoe beharensis
  • Planning to visit Nevada? Better read this before you do