THE GARDENING WORLD 
November 9, 1907. 
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Tweposes. 
Even in the neighbourhood of large 
towns in America the interesting wild 
flowers are fast disappearing from their 
immediate environments, owing, no doubt, 
both to the ravages of the builder and 
the indiscriminate collection of flowers by 
the people. According to The American 
Botanist, the teachers of botany in the 
City of Minneapolis find an increasing 
difficulty from year to year in procuring 
the necessary specimens for the purpose 
of botanical instruction. A piece of 
unimproved park land, partly a swamp, 
was observed in the district, and the idea 
occurred to them to procure this land for 
the purpose of making a botanical gar¬ 
den. 
It is not their intention to lay it out 
formally, but to retain all the wild 
features possible, not only the flowers that 
already grow there, but to add others from 
time to time as they can be procured. A 
great deal of interest in this centres in the 
fact that the flowers planted will be repre¬ 
sentative of the flora of Minnesota. 
There is something peculiarly appropriate 
in this, inasmuch as all of the plants can 
be expected to succeed because native to 
the state. A brook runs through the 
ground, and this will be planted with 
Forget-me-Nots, Cardinal Flowers, Or¬ 
chids, and other things which delight in 
plenty of water. A marshy hollow in the 
ground is to be enlarged for the purpose 
of making a small pond for the growth of 
aquatic plants. 
Each year the various students gradua¬ 
ting there will plant a new specimen as a 
class Siemorial. Already not less than 
sixteen species of trees are found growing 
naturally about the grounds — a number 
that would be difficult to find growing 
wild in the same area' anywhere in this 
country. Amongst dwarfer plants already 
established there are Pitcher Plants, Sun¬ 
dews, Linnaea, Cypripediums, Gentians, 
Wood Lilies, Grass of Parnassus, etc. 
Several Ferns growing wild include the 
Cinnamon, the Sensitive, the Bladder 
Fern and Maidenhair. No doubt the 
By comparison with those varieties 
which were published last week, it will be 
seen that the flowers of this variety are 
quite distinct in form. The bloom is of 
large size, but its particular form is due to 
the long slender florets, which are twisted 
or whorled sideways and not always in the 
same direction, while each floret is also 
distinctly bent some distance below the 
apex. When in full bloom, the florets, 
Nepenthes Ruby. 
The above hybrid was obtained from 
sanguinea x Curtisii superba. The very- 
much inflated pitcher measures 9 in. to 
10 in. in length, exclusive of the lid, and 
in. in width. It is of a dark brownish 
red, obscurely blotched and splashed with 
crimson. The inside of the pitcher at the 
top is glaucous and spotted with crimson. 
Award of Merit to Messrs. J. Yeitch and 
Sons, Ltd., Chelsea, at the meeting of the 
R.H.S. on October 15th. 
latter is Adiantum pedatum, which is 
hardy. The Bladder Fern is the same as 
.our species, which is remarkable in en¬ 
joying a very wide distribution over the 
whole world, from Alaska and the West 
Indies to China and New Zealand, with 
intermediate stations. In this country it 
is one of the readiest Ferns to establish it¬ 
self in the crevices of walls that may be 
in any way sufficiently moist. 
therefore, present an interlaced or spider¬ 
like arrangement, which would take the 
fancy of some people and prove useful for 
decorative work in the cut state. The 
bloom may be described as rose-magenta, 
and heavily overlaid with carmine or lake. 
The above variety was exhibited by 
Messrs. T. S. Ware at Regent’s Park on 
the 12th September on the occasion of the 
annual exhibition of the National Dahlia 
Society. 
Pioneer of School Gardens. 
The pioneer of school gardens in Lon¬ 
don was Miss Lucy R. Latter, who is head¬ 
mistress of the infants’ department of the 
“ Invicta ” School at Blackheath. Miss 
Latter is shortly leaving London for 
India, where, at the request of the Goverm 
ment of the Maharajah, she is going 
to establish school gardens in connection 
with the public school system of Mysore. 
By permission of the London County- 
Council, she will be away six months. 
Cactus Dahlia Hew Arthur Hall. 
Cactus Dahlia 
