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produced. Many other Orchids were flowering, but sufficient 
have been enumerated to indicate the chief attractions in that 
department. 
Pitchek Plants. —It is within the memory of many when 
Nepenthes were represented in very few British gardens ; indeed 
until quite recent years they have been regarded as so extremely 
difficult of culture that they could be only included in those 
collections where houses could be specially devoted to them, but 
it is now becoming known that many can be had in satisfactory 
condition in an ordinary stove or Orchid house. The consequence 
of this is a great increase in the demand, and to meet it numbers 
of new forms have been introduced, and hybridising has been 
resorted to with encouraging results. The houses appropriated to 
Nepenthes at Chelsea may be fairly considered the head quarters 
of the forms in cultivation, and probably it would be impossible 
to find a collection to rival it in Europe. Scores of plants sus¬ 
pended from the loof bore hundreds of pitchers, representing 
great diversity of form. From the long pitchers of N.distillatoria, 
which in the Glasnevin variety are much finer than the ordinary 
type, to the broad massive rounded pitchers of N. bicalcarata, there 
are numerous gradations, the colours and markings being similarly 
varied. The last mentioned species is at present far ahead of the 
others in general strength of habit, the broad leaves matching the 
capacious pitchers very well. N. Rajah is still young, but it is 
Fig. 94 .—Peak nocvelle fclvie. 
developing satisfactorily, and good provision has been made for its 
continued progress. In N. madagascariensis, too, the pitchers are 
not fully developed, but the fine deep red colour marks it as one 
of great promise. But certainly one of the most distinct and one 
which might be easily recognised among any at present known is 
N. Yeitchii, which is remarkable for the very broad brown or 
yellowish green margin to the mouth of the pitcher, the body 
being long and green shaded with brown. N. Mastersiaua with 
neat and bright-coloured pitchers ; N. Morganiana streaked with 
red ; the richly spotted N. Hookeri and the deep-coloured N. san- 
gumea, and the old N. Raffiesiana with others innumerable, are all 
growing and “pitchering” admirably, in some cases perhaps 
better than they would in their native habitats. 
Stove Plants. —Amongthe vastnumbers of these it is difficult 
to select a few for note, as all are good ; but chiefly confining our¬ 
selves to the novelties we still have abundance. Foremost among 
these the beautiful Jasminum gracillimum deserves notice. When 
shown at Kensington for the first time last year it attracted much 
attention, and the plant exhibited at a recent meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society fully confirmed the high opinion that was 
generally formed of it, and proved that the first-class certificate 
awarded was well merited. Several specimens of good size in one 
