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interesting subject. I have for years been trying to induce my 
horticultural friends to make collections'of our home orchises, 
but I do not recollect that I ever induced more than one party 
to pay that attention to them they so richly deserve. I have 
ever found them ready to grow an exotic, let it be ever so insig¬ 
nificant; but our home plants they seem to disregard altogether. 
I beg to assure your readers they may grow British specimens 
with very little trouble. I have grown them more or less for 
many years, and have always found them to more than repay 
any trouble attending them. Your correspondent is quite correct 
in supposing they may be much improved by judicious culture, 
and I can fully enter into his feelings, that in this day, when 
floriculture is so rapidly advancing, it is strange these lovelv 
plants are so little noticed. 
In the neighbourhood of Matlock, Bath, Derbyshire, I have 
found the following, which alone would form an interesting 
group:- 
Orchis bifolia 
pyramidalis 
morio 
mascula 
ustulata 
militaris 
maculata 
Gymnadenia conopsea 
hire in a Satyrium 
hircinum 
Ophrys muscifera 
apifera 
Neottia nidus avis. 
There are, I believe, about four or five others found in the same 
locality. 
Manchester. ^ * Eale. 
[Will any of our friends oblige us with a detailed mode of 
growing these native gems ? — Ed c ^ 
A NEW TRAP FOR INSECTS. 
We have lately received from Mr. Devonport, of Newport, Staf¬ 
fordshire, an ingeniously contrived trap for earwigs, woodlice, and 
such nocturnal depredators. It is made of earthenware, in form of 
a double funnel, the inner one being smaller and shorter than the 
outer, leaving a vacuity for the reception of the insects ; the undei 
side of the first, where it is intended the tops of the flower- 
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