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sees quite duplicated in nature. It is not difficult to grow all 

 the Sarracenias in the latitude of New York City, and if a 

 majority of these species be represented and made to form a 



principal feature of the planting, a pleasing result is assured. 

 To be able to follow these interesting types, have them bloom 

 and exhibit their anomalous features of entrapping insects 

 while at the same time others find immunity and their sole ha- 

 bitat within these wonderfully adapted pitchers, in ones own 

 garden, is a privilege, and the trouble in the beginning is soon 

 forgotten in subsequent gratification. The recent work of 

 Jones, Hapburn and MacFarlane in checking up the old and 

 adding new data on the many sided question involved in these 

 plants takes on a new meaning when such striking types may 

 be seen standing one beside the other. And of this category 

 it is always of interest to point to Dionaca uinscipula, that plant 

 characterized by Darwin as the most wonderful in the world. 



To enhance an extension of the environmental or ecolog- 

 ical possibilities of the suggested bog, the aim has been to pro- 

 duce an acid content where such plants as Sphagnunis and 

 sundews for moist types, and Fissipcs ocaulis of drier ones, 

 plants usually associated with maximums, may get on with 

 what may be their minimum requirements, thus allowing a con- 

 dition of limited acidity, open to a vast number of species. 



While the plants themselves act in a large measure as in- 

 dicators of their acid requirements, the work of Wherry in 

 computing the entended data he has given us, simplifies and 

 suggests much that may be done in this line. It may seem 

 anomolous to bring together plants redolent of moisture in 

 juxtaposition with those of thin soil or well drained situations ; 

 to comingle habitats as divergent as Canada and Florida, but 

 it only demonstrates that moisture and temperature lose much 



