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six weeks or more, when some of the kinds produce a second crop of leaves, which are more 
beautiful than those of the first crop, and remain fresh during the winter. This is especially 
the case with Sarracenia Drummondii, the richly coloured purplo and white pitchers of which 
prove to be never-failing objects of interest. Sarracenia flava does not make the second 
growth of leaves in so marked a manner, but rather inclines to rest during the winter months. 
Now it is in the mixture of the leaves that the intermediate state of the hybrid is so strikingly 
exemplified. It makes its second growth of winter pitchers similar to S. Drummondii, and 
they are nearly as highly coloured, but they decay much sooner than those of the parent 
species, and thus more closely resemble those of the female parent, S. flava. Further, the 
large stature of the plant, which is nearly 2 ft. high, the purple colour of the flowers, and, indeed, 
everything connected with it, show that it holds an exactly intermediate rank between the 
parent plants. 
- ^INCE the exhibition at Florence of Dr. Moore’s hybrid Sarracenia, two 
others have been made known, namely, Sarracenia Stevensii^ raised by Mr. 
Stevens, of Trentham, and Sarracenia Williamsii^ raised by Mr. Williams, of 
Holloway. These two plants have the same parents, namely, S. purpurea and S. flava, but 
they are so different in aspect, that we have little doubt the crosses were made the reverse way. 
Mr. Stevens’s plant more nearly resembles S. purpurea, though it has an erect habit, since it 
combines the bulging form and purple veining and coloration of that species. Mr. Williams’ 
plant, on the other hand, has a greater resemblance to IS. flava, being larger and erect, less 
coloured, with a large lid, but having the pitcher more broadly winged, and in this respect 
approaching its other parent. These hybrids are plants of very great horticultural 
interest. 
- ®HE Eriocaulons^ represented in tbis country by tbe diminutive E. 
septangulare^ become in Brazil tall branching objects of great interest and beauty. 
One of these, a noble specimen, is now, we learn, growing at the garden of the 
Luxembourg in Paris, where it was lately in bloom. The plant appears to have been raised 
from seed derived from South Brazil. The seeds were sown on moist sphagnum by M. 
Riviere, and soon germinated. In 1870, during the siege of Paris by the Giermans, M. Rividre, 
from the scarcity of fuel, was obliged to crowd all his more valuable plants into the Orchid- 
house, and to abandon the rest. But on January 5,1871, a shell fell into the house, and though 
it buried itself in the ground without bursting, the wind produced by its passage upset and 
dispersed the plants in all directions. Next day, in seeking to collect and save the plants 
which were yet not destroyed, two young Eriocaulons were found, which, since that time, have 
been kept in sphagnum in a greenhouse. One began to show flower last winter, and was 
transferred to a stove, where it has flowered perfectly well. Great difficulty has hitherto 
been experienced in the cultivation of these plants, which naturally inhabit tropical bogs. 
- Amongst Ornamental Hardy Shrubs, which are at present neglected by 
planters, we must name the Genista virgata of Madeira, a plant which appears to 
be quite hardy, since it stands uninjured in the low damp climate of the Knap 
Hill Nurseries, where we saw it in great beauty a short time singe, and where the exquisite 
fragrance of the flowers, which resembles that of Genista canariensis, was pointed out to us 
by Mr. Waterer. It is a slender-growing plant, of a gracefully spreading or arching habit, 
very twiggy, simple-leaved, and at this season of the year profusely covered with the deep 
golden-yellow pleasantly fragrant flowers, while it is quite distinct in aspect from any of the 
other Leguminosae commonly cultivated. We shall shortly publish a figure of this plant. 
- ^HE Gardeners' Chronicle informs us that a favourite edging plant in 
Italy is Ophiopogon japonicum^ and judging from the situations in which it was 
met with, it stands the ill-effects of shade and drought. In the Cascine at 
Florence it is used largely under the avenues of trees, and near Genoa it is 
employed for similar purposes. 
- ©NE of the most conspicuously attractive of summer trees is the 
Golden Variegated Chestnut (Castanea vesca aureo-variegata), the bold, regularly- 
formed leaves of which are broadly and distinctly, though unequally, bordered 
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