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necessary good qualities. The growers of 
hardy fruits would do well, in reference to this 
question, to note the facts which the experience 
of the past year or two may have brought out, 
both for their own advantage and for the 
benefit of others. There should, however, in 
all cases, be sufficient materials brought under 
observation to warrant a positive opinion 
being expressed, since the behaviour of a stray 
tree or two, here and there, does not afford 
any reliable basis on which a sound judgment 
could be pronounced.—T. Moore. 
NEW PITCHER-PLANTS. 
UR1NG the last few years numerous 
hybrid forms of Nepenthes have made 
their appearance in gardens, and have 
been welcomed, as being of a much hardier con¬ 
stitution than some of the imported species. 
Several novelties of this kind have been sent 
out by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea; 
and now Mr. B. S. Williams follows with others, 
