. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. rice Vilmorin.—The many friends madeby this highly intelligent gentleman during histour through America, will be glad to learnthat in testimony of the value to France of hisbotanical and horticultural labor, he has recent-ly received from his government the decorationof the Legion of Honor. Estate of the Late Charles Darwin.— personal property proves to be aboutthree-quarters of a million of dollars. By hiswill Prof. Huxley has $5000 and Sir JosephHooker $5000. The balance of his estate is dividedbetween his wife, five sons, and two daught
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. rice Vilmorin.—The many friends madeby this highly intelligent gentleman during histour through America, will be glad to learnthat in testimony of the value to France of hisbotanical and horticultural labor, he has recent-ly received from his government the decorationof the Legion of Honor. Estate of the Late Charles Darwin.— personal property proves to be aboutthree-quarters of a million of dollars. By hiswill Prof. Huxley has $5000 and Sir JosephHooker $5000. The balance of his estate is dividedbetween his wife, five sons, and two daughters. Nepenthes Rajah.—The curious family ofpitcher plants known under the name of ne-penthes is among the anomalies of the vegetablekingdom. It has no known relations. Somebotanists have thought they saw some connec- 31S THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [October, tion between them and Euphorbias, but this is Aristolochia; but even this is more from theacknowledged to be but a distant connection at; structure of the plant than from any similarity. NEPENTHES RAJAH. best. Others again have sui)posed there was I in the floral organs, on which relationships aresome aifinity between them and the curious | more commonly supposed to depend. 1882.) AND HORTICULTURIST. 319 All of these considerations have value in con-nection with the question of the origin of one genus has grown out of, or proceededfrom another or others, there must have beena severe destruction of intermediate forms toleave this singular one standing so very muchalone. It may be a very old family. Theremay have been forms branching off from this—younger species—and these have been sweptaway, leaving the parents still to live longer; orthese plants may be of a modern origin, of whichthe whole ancestry is lost. Probably most biolo-gists would be inclined to the latter view—inwhich case we might inquire what it is whichhas given these plants the power to maintain anexistence as against the ancestors which have
Size: 1341px × 1864px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury18, bookdecade1870, booksubjectgardening, bookyear1876
