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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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the left hand. The horizontal stick is simply to take the place of 
the left hand, hence the shoulder cut in its left side should be 
placed behind the vertical stick and the bevelled end of the oblique 
fitted into the notch at the end of the horizontal stick ; and this 
is the point where the sensiiiveness of the trap can be regulated, 
for the case with which it “goes off ” will depend upon how the 
KLEINIA GALPINI, Hook, f. 
Some weeks ago we gave an illustration of a new Streptocarpus 
from the Transvaal, seeds of which had been sent to the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, by Mr. E. E. Galpin of Barberton, after whom it 
was named by Sir Joseph Hooker, The Kleinia represented in the 
Fig. 1.—kleinia GALPINI. 
bevelled end of the oblique stick is fitted into the notch of the 
horizontal stick. I have tried many kinds of traps for mice, all of 
which they soon got used to and too “ downy ” to be caught ; 
but this brick and three stick business seems to entirely throw 
them off their guard, they are caught in them night after night 
as long as there are any left; it is moreover a humane trap, for 
the mice ate dead in an instant.—J. H. W. 
woodcut (fig. 1) is another plant for the introduction of which 
cultivators are also indebted to Mr. Galpin, whose name is applied 
to it as its specific title. The drawing so clearly depicts the 
charactere of the plant that a description is scarcely needed, except 
to remark that the leaves are fleshy, and the florets, which are 
densely crowded in the flower-heads, are brilliant orange, a novel 
and pleasing shade of colour. As it is compact in habit of growth 
