8CHUBERTIA. 



Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 



311 



S. atrosangicinea. 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. Chelsonii. A hybrid variety of great 

 beauty. It is a cross between S. purpurea 

 and S. 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 S. purpurea, and 

 are highly coloured with crimson-purple. 



S. crispata. Another fine kind, hand- 

 somely pencilled longitudinally mth red. 

 Flowers white. 



S. Drumiiiondii 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. 



S. Drummondii rubra. A beautiful, 

 highly-coloured sort, with stout, tall, erect 

 pitchers, the upper portions white, suifused 

 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 vv'idtli 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. psittacitia. 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 — S. 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 

 puts 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 insufliciently furnished. They 

 will thrive during the summer imder 

 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 autunm, 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. 



