Асосѕт 24. 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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ROVEMENTS аге taking place with rapidit y in 
the Dem mt of 
Streptocarpus. with 
Gloxinias, and in general usefulness and X of 
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A MOTH-CATCHING PLANT. 
Tue following curious story of a well-known 
plant appeared a short time since in the Detroit Free 
Press, under the title of “A oe -catching doa 
The plant in question, the Aravjia albens, o it 
is now known as Aravj'a ийе. is pdr ry “з 
Fic, 43.—sTREPTOCARPUS MULTIFLORA. 
time that a plant will remain in flower greatly excel 
those plants, The variety depicted in our illustra- 
tion (fig. 43), was Prin by Messrs, Joh g 
Sons, Forest Hill, at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s 33 on mmt July 9, of the present 
year. The & bluish-purple ground 
rsh with mina lines — he throat. 'Tnere were 
thirty open flowers bani by the plant, which was 
growing in a 5-inch p 
our contemporary as a native of South Africa, when 
it is, in fact, а native of Peru. however, 
stated to have been introduced to New Zealand quite 
tall 
gcciden ears ago, and since then 
to have been extensively pro there оп 
account of its eff-ctive service as a killer f 
destructive ш Wherever t te is mild 
the р! an exceedingly free inet I: twines 
and climbs with great luxuriance, aces 
| precisely. L. f-m. cristata and 
immensefnumbers of white or pinkish flowers, which 
have a very agreeable scent. These flowers attract 
innumerable moths. On a summ 
f Arauji 
flower that does not imprison one or tw 
times as many as four, insecta, of oie sizes а 
genera. The action of the Aravjia is purely 
The calyx of the flower is rather Le. 
mechanical. 
and the receptacle for ite sweet juices is placed 
ati . Att by the powerfal ascent, 
proboscia to 
reach the tempting food, but before it can do so, the 
between two strong, hard, black 
age, and once nipped, 
larvæ. It is 
ever a singular fact that in New Zealand, where j^ 
plant has often been cultivated for the express 
purpose of destroying the det Codlin-moth 
ere parere, that wily insect declines to 
enter the 
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APOGAMIC рр 
Аттносон the discovery of apogam 
of species 
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ance of the young plants, a study of the literatur 
ap ода my in connection "m the curious MD a 
is ye the TU numbers, of the fact that 
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we think renewed 
investigations 
first place, although е В 
number of Ferns, bil found the -— p benz 
capable of normal, і, s of sexual reproduction, thirty- 
hree (Pteris аго filix- 
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possible discoveries in 
connection with abnormal 
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of which, be it noted, one, Listrea filix-mas cristata, 
