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larger places will, of course, have their copse and wood- 
land, but even here the mark of axe shows that thorough- 
ness and care, and that eye to profit which prevades 
everything; for dead wood is cleared out, the spindling 
trees are felled, the brushwood is cut and tied in faggots; 
everywhere there are the signs of an old industry, a 
well- worked country, where everything must be turned 
to account. 
When one wanders through English gardens with 
all their delight one cannot but feel convinced that 
common-sense and thrift are the roots on which the 
beauty has grown and thriven. 
GARDEN PLANTS — THEIR GEOGRAPHY — LXII. 
ASARALES. 
THE NEPENTHES, RAFFLESIA AND ARISTOLOCHIA 
ALLIANCE. 
This also is a small group of plants containing 
four tribes which seem to have little in common, 
13 genera and 283 species, many of which are quite 
the most remarkable plants in the world. They 
can only be represented in Northern gardens by a 
few species of two genera. All the rest are trop- 
ical or sub-tropical. 
The Nepenthete, of which we illustrate an ex- 
ample, is founded on a single genus of 31 species 
and a iarge number of natural and hybrid varieties, 
natives of tropical Asia, Malaisia and Australasia, 
and of Madagascar and the Seychelles. They are 
very singular and are known as “the pitcher 
plants.” What are passed over as flowers by the 
heedless are leaf appendages. The individual 
flowers are small and produced in a dense terminal 
raceme. Their relationship is by no means ob- 
vious. Brown pointed out analogies to the Aristo- 
lochias, and the structure of their wood is said to 
confirm theirhomogeneity. Adolph Brongniart con- 
sidered them near to the Rafflesieie or such of 
them as he knew. Modern systematists seem to 
agree with these views and with superior advan- 
tages now term the group " Multiovulatce terrestris." 
They are found growing on shelving, boggy 
ground, but gardeners often suspend them in the 
manner of epiphytes for the sake of better display- 
ing their curiously-formed pitchers, which vary in 
color from green to chocolate red variously mottled 
and marked. 
The Raffle sieae and Hydnoreae contain between 
them some of the most extraordinary parasites in 
existence. They have never been brought into cul- 
tivation for in Malaisia they grow on the over- 
ground stems or roots of Cissus, upon the roots of 
Cistus in Mediterranean countries, upon roots of 
Cotyledons and succulent Euphorbias in South 
Africa, and upon the branches of leguminous 
plants in tropical America. It seems hopeless to 
present a written picture ofRafflesia Arnoldi. The 
NEPENTHES stenophyi.ea. — Gardener's Chronicle. 
bud appears on the stem of a vine, first like an 
excresence, then swells out to the appearance of a 
trimmed purple cabbage. The plant is a huge 
five parted flower often three feet across, with a 
basin-like process in the centre of and above the 
huge calyx lobes or flaps. A single bloom of nar- 
cissus poeticus laid flit gives a faint idea of the 
structure. After two or three days of expansion 
partial decomposition sets in and it smells abomin- 
ably. The bowl- -r-r.- 
like processes con- ' ' 
tain the dioecious . 
I 
organs necessary 
to fertilization, 
and the lobes of 
the full - grown 
flower in size and 
curvature not un- 
like the mould- 
board of a plough, 
seem as though 
hewn from the 
vitals of a mam- 
moth; they curve 
gracefully o u t - 
ward, then down- 
ward from the cen- 
tral ring to the 
circumference; and the wonderful flower never has 
a stem but a foster one and never a leaf. Such 
ASARUM CANADENSE. 
