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S. atrosanguinea. A very handsome 
species, thickly streaked with red on the 
upper part of the pitcher, which colouring 
assumes the form of a solid blotch on the 
greater portion of the inside of the lid. 
Flowers white. 
S. Chelsonw. A hybrid variety of great 
beauty. It is a cross between S. purpurea 
and §. rubra. The pitchers, intermediate 
in habit between the two parents, attain a 
height of 18 inches. In shape they par- 
take of the character of 8. purpurea, and 
are highly coloured with crimson-purple. 
S. crispata. Another fine kind, hand- 
somely pencilled longitudinally with red. 
Flowers white. 
S. Drummondii alba. The tallest of all. 
We have had this sort with pitchers 4 feet 
high. The upper part of the pitchers is 
white, distinctly mottled and veined with 
green. Flowers crimson-purple. x 
S. Drummondii rubra. A beautiful, 
highly-coloured sort, with stout, tall, erect 
pitchers, the upper portions white, suffused 
and netted with red. Flowers crimson- 
purple. 
S. flava maxima. This makes the largest 
pitchers of all the family. The lids of a 
strong example will attain a width of 6 
inches, the upper portion of the pitchers is 
of an olive-yellow shade, the lid streaked 
with crimson. Flowers yellow. 
S. flava ornata. <A large, stout-growing, 
very handsome sort, the upper portion of 
the pitchers and their lids covered with a 
close network of reddish-brown. Flowers 
yellow. 
S. psittacina. A small but beautiful kind 
with prostrate pitchers deeply coloured 
with red towards the extremities ; the lid 
forms a complete hood. Flowers purple. 
S. purpurea. A very stout, short- 
pitchered kind, the pitchers are procum- 
bent and deeply suffused with, or almost 
wholly, reddish-purple towards the ex- 
tremities. Flowers purple. 
S. rubra has medium-sized pitchers, 
deeply veined and shaded on the upper 
part with red, as also the lid. The flowers 
of this species are ruby-coloured, and 
deliciously scented like Violets. 
S. variolaris. A medium grower, with 
erect pitchers, spotted on the upper part 
with white ; the lid is hooded. A distinct 
kind. Flowers yellow. 
All the species are natives of North 
America. 
Insects.—Sarracenias are not generally 
much affected with insects beyond thrips 
and aphides, which are often troublesome, 
and immediately these are found they 
must be at once destroyed, or they will 
spoil the pitchers. Fumigation and spong- 
ing with clean water are the safest means 
to employ with these plants. 
SCHUBERTIA. 
There are two species of these pretty, 
free-blooming stove plants, both natives of 
Brazil—S8. grandiflora, which bears white 
blossoms, and S. graveolens, which has 
pale yellow flowers. Both are very dis- 
tinct in general appearance and also in the 
character of their flowers, which are pro- 
duced during the summer months. They 
can be struck from cuttings composed of 
the young shoots, such as have sprung 
from branches that have been cut back and 
have attained a length of 4 inches or 5 
inches, taking them off with a heel in 
spring, and putting them singly in little 
pots in sand. They should be set in a 
close, shady place under a propagating 
glass in a temperature of 70°; they will 
usually root in about a month or six weeks. 
After allowing a little time for them to get 
inured to the air of the house move them 
into 4-inch pots, using good turfy peat 
containing plenty of vegetable fibre, and 
adding sand enough to keep it porous. 
As soon as they begin to grow pinch out 
the points of the shoots, otherwise, from 
their natural scandent habit, they will run 
up thin and insufficiently furnished. They 
will thrive during the summer under 
similar conditions of heat, shade, moisture, 
and air as are found to answer for the 
generality of evergreen stove plants ; give 
them pots 3 inches or 4 inches larger about 
the beginning of July, and insert a few 
sticks in the soil to train the shoots to. 
They may produce a few flowers towards 
autumn, but it is better not to consider 
these the first season, and to get the plants 
as strong as possible for the second year. 
Give them all the light that can be afforded 
through the autumn, with more air and a 
drier atmosphere, wintering in a tempera- 
ture of 60°. In the spring, when the heat 
of the house is raised, move them into 
10-inch or 12-inch pots, and treat them as 
in the previous summer ; keep the shoots 
trained so that they may not get entangled. 
Manure-water will assist the plants when 
their time of blooming approaches, which 
if all goes well will be about July. They 
will keep on flowering until the end of 
August ; afterwards they should have their 
shoots well shortened back. » Winter as 
before, give larger pots in spring, and in 
other respects treat as in the preceding 
summer ; after this the plants may be 
either cut back and grown on again, or 
discarded and their place taken by young 
ones. 
