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Cereus alacriportanus

Description: The labels that accompany these photos in the album read "Cereus alacriportanus (in fruit)", with a manuscript note that says "transplanted", and "Cereus alacriportanus (in flower), N. B-17", with a manuscript note that says "transplanted." Written in white on the bottom right corner of the first picture is "W. Hertrich 1925."
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Date: 1925
Call number: photCL 107 vol1 pg26
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Cereus alacriportanus (in flower), 1925

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The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "Cereus alacriportanus (in flower), N. B-17", with a manuscript note that says "transplanted." To the right of the specimen is "W. Hertrich 1925."

photCL 107 vol1 pg26

Desert garden view and a cereus being transplanted

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Two photographs of the desert garden mounted on a black page, labeled "General view" with a MS note that says "Cereus jeruriana(?)" and "Transplanting cereus dayamii, N. B-22." On the right hand side of the second picture, in white, is "W. Hertrich 1925."

photCL 107 vol1 pg32

Cereus grandicostatus

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Standing nest to this cereus specimen is William Hertrich. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "Cereus grandicostatus." William Hertrich was Superintendent of Botanical from 1927 to 1949.

photCL 107 vol1 pg44

Transplanting a large cereus, 1925

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Workers stand on either side of a large cereus specimen, being transported across makeshift wooden rails to its new home in the desert garden. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "Transplanting large cereus, N. B-16." Written in white on the bottom right corner of the page is "W. Hertrich 1925."

photCL 107 vol1 pg28

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Cereus Huntingtonianus, circa 1935

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William Hertrich examining a tall and broad cereus specimen. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 130 William Hertrich examining Cereus huntingtonianus, about 1935." William Hertrich was Superintendent of Botanical from 1927 to 1949.

photCL 107 vol3 pg44

Desert garden views of four different cereus specimens

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Four photographs of the desert garden mounted on a black page, labeled "Cereus beysiegelii 1938, N. IB-78", "Cereus dayamii 1936, N. R-82", "Cereus gonianthus 1936, N. R-70, 71", and "Cereus alicriportanus, N. B-16." On the bottom right of the last picture is "W. Hertrich 1925."

photCL 107 vol1 pg75

Cereus alacriportanus

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