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take too much space, but the customary utensils and materials seem to be 
used, varying according to circumstances. A good many small plants are 
suspended, in shallow pans and teak-wood baskets, in convenient places, so 
as to get them near the light, without interfering too much with the plants 
on the stages, and many such situations can be found at the edges of the 
pathways, &c. The plants on the stages, too, are arranged according to size, 
so as to get a good amount of light, which is regarded as a very important 
matter. 
The owner, though employing a gardener, gives a general superintendence 
over the Orchids, and attends to many of the operations with his own 
hands. There is nothing very peculiar about the collection; there are 
many similar ones throughout the country, which furnish a delightful 
recreation to a business man in his leisure hours. The results must be 
left toa future paper. 
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(To be continued.) 
LIPARIS LOESELII IN NORFOLK. 
Tue drainage of the Fen district has restricted the area of many character- 
istic bog plants, and a few are now believed to be almost or quite extinct 
there. Itis interesting to learn that the very rare Liparis Loeselii still 
survives in Norfolk, specimens having been met with a few weeks ago by 
A. E. Buckhurst, Esq., M.a., Head Master of the Richmond County 
School. How rare it is in the county may be judged from records. In the 
first volume of Sowerby’s English Botany, published in 1790 (t. 47) it is 
stated that “Mr. Pitchford many years ago found, ina meadow at St. 
Faith’s, near Norwich, one single specimen, which he afterwards presented 
to the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot.”” Some years later it was also found at Royden 
Fen, near Diss, being included in Turner & Dillwyn’s Botanists’ Guide 
(p. 444) in 1805; and in this locality it is said to have been found as late as 
1855, by Miss Barnard (Syme Engl. Bot. ix., p. 134). There is a specimen 
from this locality in Borrer’s British Herbarium, now at Kew. The other 
English counties in which it has been found are Cambridge, Suffolk, 
Huntingdonshire, and, doubtfully, Kent, but it is extremely rare and local. 
Syme records its habitat as “‘spongy bogs. Rare, and now nearly extinct 
from the drainage of the Fens.” The two Norfolk localities are a considerable 
distance apart, and the new one isin quite a different part of the country, 
but it is not desirable to indicate it too closely, for fear of hastening its 
extermination. Suffice it to say that ten specimens were seen, and that 
Mr. Buckhurst remarks that ‘‘ Drosera anglica was growing in great pro- 
fusion close by, and Epipactis palustris was very abundant—hundreds of 
