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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[November, 
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THE SARKACENIAS, OR SIDE-SADDLE FLOWERS. 
HE species of this curious family of plants, which bears the botanical name 
of Sarracenia^ are now more commonly seen than formerly, the supposed 
mystery attending their cultivation proving to be a myth. The grand 
examples which were exhibited some few years since by Mr. Baines must 
have been instrumental in dispelling this illusion, and since that time there has 
usually been an interesting group of these plants exhibited at the Manchester 
Botanical Gardens on the occasion of the Whitsuntide show. A considerable 
number was exhibited at the show in May last, many of them being in flower, 
and including one novelty—a very fine form of S. jiava^ much more vigorous 
than that called S. Jiava maxima^ having larger and more highly-coloured pitchers, 
and to which the name of Sarracenia Fildesii^ after its owner, was attached. 
This plant has the pitcher-like leaves twice the size of those of S.Jiava^ but of 
the same general character, and they are strongly marked with dark red veins on 
the upper part of the tube or pitcher, as well as on the lid. 
Leaves oe Sarracenia psittacina. 
One of the most interesting features of a specially intetesting group of plants 
exhibited by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Chelsea, at the great summer show of 
the Royal Horticultural Society in June last, was a remarkably varied group of 
Sarracenias, Darlingionia^ and allied plants, including a most interesting hybrid, 
named Sarracenia Stevensii^ raised some few years ago by Mr. Stevens, of Trentham, 
and now developing into a very handsome plant. This was raised between 
S, purpurea and S. Jiava maxima^ taking on the erect habit of the latter, with the 
bulging form and purple veining and coloration of the former, which it thus most 
nearly resembles. Mr. Williams’s fine colleetion of these plants also contains a 
hybrid form, S. Williamsii^ which has the same parentage as S. Steveusii^ but 
from its taking more after S. Jiava, it is probable the cross was made the reverse 
