Plate 37:2. 

 AUSTRALIAN PITCHER-PLANT. 



Some years ago, we figured ( Plato 208)Sarraa nia Vrummondii, 

 as a representative of the North American Pitcher-plants; and 

 although the plant of which we now give an illustration is by 

 no means a novelty, yet, as it has recently been much more 

 cultivated, as it is so easj of cultivation, and is so great a 

 curiosity, — we have thought we should be serving the interests 

 of horticulturists by bringing it under their notice. 



AN' e saw it growing at Messrs. Carter's, al Forest Hill, and 

 when we obtained the plant of Egyptian Queen, they were 

 good enough to forward at the same time, to our artist, a plant 

 of this Pitcher-plant, Gephalotiis follicularis, from whence he 

 has taken his figure. We have also seen it in great vigour at 

 the Messrs. Yeitch's and Messrs. Henderson's. 



The method of cultivation is very simple. As it is a bog 

 plant, coining from the (Julf of Carpentaria, in the warm parts 

 of Australia, it requires to be grown in plenty of moisture; we 

 have, in order to imitate its natural soil as much as possible, 

 grown it in a mixture of fibrous peat and sphagnum moss, 

 chopped very line. The plant is potted in this, and raised up 

 somewhat high in the centre; this pot is then placed inside 

 another, about two sizes larger, and the space between them 

 tilled in with moss, the whole to he kept thoroughly moist, bj 

 frequenl waterings overhead with a fine rose. The plant itself 

 does not attain a greater Length than two inches. When it is 

 grown in a common greenhouse, this will he sufficient; hut 

 we have ourselves grown it in a draw ing-room with much success, 

 and it is sine always to attract attention bj the profusion id' 

 singular pitchers which it produces; in such a situation it 

 requires to he covered l>\ a bell-glass, slightly raised at the 



