644 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
I am decidedly of the opinion that strong sun- 
light is a powerful determining factor in the 
deep crimson in full sunshine, to uniform green 
in the shade. 
Some of the pitchers of S. flava were simply 
magnificent, and almost, if not quite, eclipsed 
the giants of Glasnevin Gardens; 33 feet from 
the rhizome, and 3 inches across the mouth, 
were tube measurements that satisfied us. 
The scenery and life of bn savannahs are to 
me only surpassed of the great lone 
hills, Isolated individuals and irregular patches 
of the long-leaved Pine cover the flat or slightly 
undulating country. Clumps of spice-bush and 
of; S. flava that spring from a grassy sand-loam 
beneath. In such surroundings we often watched 
till a sudden leap into the air, and a few strokes 
of its wings would carry it out of sight, if not 
out of hearing. 
Our next resting-place was Wilmington, N. C., 
the famous home of the Venus’ Fly-trap (Dionza 
home a tuft 13 by 19 st which agen a 
thirty-one plants, large an miles 
one meets with it in _— Bo Sk el ss fn the 
soil is a black sandy loam, 
The Sarracenias were about equal to those of 
the south, but for the first time in our wan- 
erings we met with a oouple of veritable 
a I espied them at a distance of about 
eet, and nearer examination confirmed their 
3 with the plant sent me by Mr. F. Moore 
as à oross between purpurea and flava. But this 
settled, we had to find the ee parent, not a 
specimen of which we had up to that time seen 
in the south. Not three feet from where we 
were standing the needed parent was disoovered. 
Both hybrids I am glad to say are growing 
with me, while subsequent minute study of their 
structure confirmed their dual origin. 
You will mp credit the 15 re our 
native S. purpurea at times m t three 
weeks after my enen tour I was 1 
in New Jersey, and was oarried by train past a 
lake bordered by the plant. I determined to 
make an inspection, and did not regret it. The 
lake was about a quarter of a mile long. Its 
ered by a oontinuous sheet of 
e. 
mass of pitchers 7 
to 12 feet in width, and mostly floating in the 
water, was a sight indeed. I hope some day to 
photograph the view, and you will then be able 
to share the pleasure, 
a 
In the sheltered bays of this lake floating 
beds of the purple Bladderwort (Utricularia 
violacea), in full bloom, alternated with sunken 
logs that were carpetted with Drosera rotundi- 
folia and D. intermedia, A real carnivorous 
garden, you will say, and such it was. John M. 
Macfarlane, Botanic Garden, University of 
Pennsylvania, 
ORCHID NOTES AND AND G LEANINGS, 
HAZELWOOD, D. KING'S LANGLEY. 
Vicz-Apmimat R. P. Caror, in his gardens of 
Hazelwood, possesses & large collection a Orchids, 
see Mr, George Day, the Orchid grower, cultivates 
in a very satisfactory manner. The collection is 
e chiefly for the rare, curious, and pretty 
ts, which have been sent from various out-of- 
no 
Fig, 90. —CYPRIPED 
kind was remarked in a number of plants of the rare 
Cymbidium ey perifolium. These plants occupied an 
overhead shelf in the cool-house; some singular 
Ccelogynes and Grammatophyllums which have not 
ndrobium infundibulum gathered at 
different altitudee, and ranging from the dwarf high- 
J forms gathered at lower levels, 
which vary in the colour of the lip markings from 
E> eee to the Roman-red found in those cal 
num, 
ie ot of the houses are built on a novel plan, 
which seems to meet pee . gi the plants 
admirably, The roof i rviline: y 
dividing the houses ——— which conse- 
EDIUM X GERTRUDE HOLLINGTON: CREAM-COLOURED, HEAVILY SPOTTED WITH ruht 
A cross S between P 28 seed parent, and C. bellatulum, male parent. Raised b 
J. Hollington, Esq. (See Gardeners’ Chronicle, May 18, 1895, p. 626, col, 0.) 
t when the house iy 
In the first house of this lot entered, a 
in varied collection of Cypripediums, N 
d species, and novelties, was rem arked, I. 
closed done awa 
aa covered the stages, and consist 4 
overeli 
C. Dana 
have been artificially crossed. Suspended 
this house were warm-house Coelogynes, C. 
y Mr. Ayling, gardener t0 
n 
. b 
and others, anor; e their 1 
of robi 
furnished with oms mi 
very healthy dwarf prance oe 
amongst 333 Courtaul ecit l 
The old ge of glass-houses have each god it 
at a 
of Orchids for apes ee are best re 
some Cases om wall at the back isc 
with 
and other kinds of ae 
paragus plumosus, 
foliage are 
