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with hoods measuring 4 to 6 inches 
across. Very fine plants have also been 
grown at Glasnevin and in the gardens 
of the Earl of Pembroke at Mt. Merrion, 
where there was a tuft over 3 feet high 
with as many as 40 perfect pitchers. 
Though mostly seen in a greenhouse 
it is possible to grow the Darlingtonia 
quite successfully in a shady cold-frame 
or even in the open air. This experi- 
ment has been tried in many places with 
more or less success, any failure being 
due rather to our short cool summer 
than from any fear of cold. In any case 
the growth is somewhat slow and the 
pitchers are small though they colour 
well. The best chance of success in 
this way is to raise hardy seedlings in 
a cold frame and plant them in a very 
sheltered place beside water when about 
four years old, protection being given 
by a handlight from cold dry winds in 
spring. 
Varieties. — A so-called new species of Dar- 
lingtonia was found on Black Hawk Creek in 
Sierra County, California, in 1878, and was 
figured in colour in the Californian Horticul- 
turist {ov ]2cs\n2iV^ 1 879, where its flower-scapes 
are described as being 40 inches in height. 
There is also a distinct form known as Dar- 
lingtonia rubra^m which the pitchers are slighter 
and less robust and more or less suffused with 
crimson. The Darlingtonia has resisted all 
attempts at crossing with Sarracenia,but what 
is either a distinct seedling form, or a cross 
with a Nepenthes, was sent out some years 
ago by Messrs. Veitch of Chelsea and named 
jD. Courtii 2ih&v its raiser, William Court. In 
this plant the pitchers are shorter, stouter, 
and more rounded at the mouth, with the 
footstalks starting flatly outwards from the 
crown and developing erect pitchers almost 
at right-angles. It needs more warmth than 
the wild plant,growing well with Masdevallias 
and suspended like a Nepenthes. 
I New Lupins. — From the nurseries at Daisy 
Hill, Newry, comes a choice selection of named 
kinds raised by Mr. T. Smith, remarkable for 
their range of colour and very effective as seen 
in bold groups. Amongst the most distinct 
of these seedlings are Golden Spire, with dense 
spikes of fine clear yellow ; rubra aurea with 
flowers of pale yellow,deepening in the standard 
and taking a shade of reddish-purple with full 
i expansion ; Blush Queen, with dainty spikes 
! of pale mauve flowers shading to a deeper 
tint upon the standard, and with bright blue 
\ pencillings on the keel. In this kind the buds 
I are white, giving a pretty contrast of colour. 
Butterfly is a creamy-yellow kind with deep 
blue lines on the keel and rosy-lilac shading in 
thestandard. i?r/>/m««/<3' is creamy-white with 
rosy-lilac touches towards the outer edges of 
the petals ; and alba elongata has long spikes 
of white flowers turning to pale yellow on the 
erect petals. T. Smith is a fine dark flower in 
very long spikes of bright blue, shaded with 
rosy-purple on the standard and with deep 
reddish-purple stems showing through the 
flowers. Rubescens has large flowers of rosy- 
purple, with deep blue pencillings on the keel 
and a blue spot at the base of the standard. 
In May Day are large wide-open flowers with 
a bright blue keel, standard shaded blue with 
a bright blue spot at the base. Sprite has short 
rounded spikes in which white, pale-yellow, 
blue, and rosy-lilac, are all present. Another 
good dark kind is Daisy Hill in deep blue and 
I purple, with enough white for effective con- 
trast. Bronze King is very distinct, with its 
flowers in clusters and deep yellow, suffused 
with dull bronze-purple and blue pencillings. 
; In Glowwor?n, at first dull yellow, the flowers 
I are gradually suffused with reddish-purple 
until the standard is quite deep in colour. 
Beauty bears dense spikes of rather small 
bright blue flowers, set off by white edges 
and a rosy-purple standard ; while in May 
Queen the flowers are sparsely-clustered with 
almost a whorled effect, their colour being 
blue and creamy-white in pretty combina- 
tion. Grown in large masses as at Newry, 
there are few finer June-flowering plants for 
banks and dry places, and this strain sup- 
plies the best colour-combinations we have 
yet seen. 
