and are by no means the object of the gardener 
stigmatic surface. These flowers have little 
this plant, in a very singul 
pitcher itself being the leafstalk, and the cover its blade. By what mode of development this kind of 
structure is produced has never yet been conclusively shown. It has been thought that the pitcher 
is formed by the folding together, in its earliest infancy, of the two sides of a flat leafstalk, the line 
of which union is indicated by a firm elevated rib, which proceeds from the base to the opening of the 
pitcher, as if to stiffen and sustain it j but this is not certain, and it is more probable that the pitcher 
is the result of a hollowing process, coeval with the first growth of the pitcher itself, and analogous 
to that which produces the hip of the rose, or the cup at the bottom of the 
or the cups that appear accidentally upon cabbage leaves. 
calyx 
a the exact nature of the pitcher is thus undecided, we are still further from a knowledge of the 
use for winch so singular an apparatus is destined. To the common idea, that nature intended it to 
hold v ter arise these objections : that water is not found in the pitcher except after rains or heavy 
few* and that plants which grow naturally in bogs can hardly require any unusual apparatus for 
supphnig hem with water Ofl rs think that the pitcher is a contrivance for detaining insects in 
captivity m they perish and decay, the putrefaction of these creatures conducing to the nutrition of 
the plant But there is no apparent reason why the Side-saddle flower should require this sort of 
peel i^trimen more than its neighbours in the same bogs, which have no pitcher, This, however, is 
nr a ctdindv t lev n T^ ° f ** **" *"* ^ the bsects to ^ *-»*»' 
r^e moth of tCn ^ ? ^T*™* * ^ b ° tt0m - In the ^ ™ **™ » we count 
m the month of February, about a dozen, two of winch are wasps j and Mr Croom savs that he 
:; of m e S :; of £ a b ?^ ^r lio Tm) - wsed *- ^ s i:; 
is a question whether this at™* !/, Sundance escape from the sides when wounded, it 
manner 
memorandum 
nam 
The stove is decidedly the most suitahlp rA+* t *u 
they require much warruth and moisture. A temperlture o7 T^T^ "* maturin g th ^ growth, at which time 
syringing three times a day, from March till SepSXThal f * ♦ * T' S* P^ ° f Water at the «"«* and 
greenhouse would probablv *„«».. + ».„ „_:,_?,-*» We have found *° suit them the best. During tw;- M . BM , -* _L „ 
drj 
• . r > -wui <»« 10 otr, not h "her Th* w,.. *• *■ . -~, »«. jiulu »uouiu oe Kept 
that purpose » silver sand and Sphagnum, well mixed Jhh T T °r ^^ " Januar y> ™d the best material for 
nnportant to have plenty of drainage and no fe^- need be entT 1 P ? ^ P<>tSherdS ' br ° keQ 1 uite — ** * 
c^omary at Chatsworth to place the pots in saucTrs wWch IZT TV/ nT*" " tW9 particular - » ^ been 
S2L. I 6 !! S J~* attach 4 i-PortanceTo JES^SE ITS ^ *» *** ° f *» " 
cuce. x i, e plants wlU thrive equa)Jy ^ ^^ ^^ 
three months. The number of pitchers, on an individual 
We have measured individual pitchers of this species, and 
mum fnrth of +Vi« #«*s „• • * _. r 7 
Fitchem are usually form 
varies from fourteen 
«-* -d Ap ;r niss el-Si- *• -™ 
By removing the flower-buds as they appear TsST T -Tu *! ^^ F1ower - usuall r °P en in 
J appear, tlie succeeding pitchers become much finer. 
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