FLORA AND SYLVA 
sphagnum-moss. The plants should 
be firmly potted and the crowns and 
rhizomes raised a little above the rim. 
Plenty of water is required especially 
during active growth, but at no time 
should they become dry. The pots 
may be placed in shallow pans of water 
and are best arranged on a sunny shelf 
where they can be syringed gently three 
or four times each day while growing 
freely, in order to keep insect pests at 
bay. The duration of the leaves is of 
importance, and Macfarlane says that 
in the Atlantic States the foliage of aS'. 
flava appears in April and is mostly 
withered in October. The leaves of 
aS*. rubra endure until the end of Novem- 
ber or even into December, while the 
autumn leaves of S. Driimmoiidii last 
until February or March of the suc- 
ceeding year. Those of S. Catesbcei re- 
main fresh and green until a new crop 
has been produced at the end of April, 
and the leaves of S. variolaris^ S. psitt- 
acina^ and S. purpurea last still longer 
and in the order named. As regards 
flowering, S. Catesbcei is the earliest, 
flowering in February or March in its 
wild state. This is followed 7 to lo 
days later by S. Jlava'^ then comes S. 
variolaris^ and still later S. psittacina 
and S. purpurea^ while S. rubra and 
S. Drummonciii flower about a month 
later than S. Catesbcei, 
Improvement among Sarraceniashas 
been marked by successive stages. For 
many years we had only the wild kinds 
and their seedlingforms,andthesegrown 
mainly as curiosities or in botanical gar- 
dens. The raising of the first garden 
hybrid in Ireland about 1874 gave an 
I impetus to their cultivation which led 
I several of the great firms to collect the 
best wild and cultivated forms for cross- 
I ing. As a result Messrs. Veitch of 
' Chelsea raised some new and showy 
I kinds, as also did Mr. F. W. Moore 
! at Glasnevin, whose first seedling was 
S. Popei. Very fine crosses between 
flava and f^ubra^ picrpurea and rubra,^ 
j and purpurea and Dimmmoitdii^ were 
I also raised by Mr. Moore — a strain with 
highly-coloured pitchers and handsome 
j wine-coloured flowers. Mr. Moore 
j found S. rubra especially valuable as 
a pollen parent, its pollen "taking" 
upon nearly every flower to which it 
was applied, whether those of the true 
species or the garden hybrids of Veitch 
and the late Dr. Paterson. So far as I 
can learn the only other raiser of note 
was Mr. Thos. Hubberstey, gardener 
to O. O. Wrigley, Esq. of Bury, Lanca- 
shire, who reared S. IVrigleyana^ S. 
Swania7iaj S. J^itc/ieiliana^ S. Tolli- 
a7ia^ and eight others sent out by 
Messrs. Bull of Chelsea and Messrs. B. S. 
Williams of Holloway from 1884 to 
1 89 1. While gardener at Quorn House 
near Loughborough, Mr. Cook raised 
at least two hybrids — aS*. Cookiana^ and 
S. Fariihami — and these in turn became 
the parents of S. Sanderce and aS*. San- 
deriana. So far as can be ascertained 
but few hybrid Sarracenias have been 
raised in continental gardens. I am 
kindly informed by Messrs. Sander of 
Bruges, and M. Ed. Pynaert Van Geert 
of Ghent, that a list of hybrids was 
pubHshed in the " Semaine Horticole," 
1897, p. 176. 
Mr. R.I. Lynch of Cambridge writes 
