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Don (dngess01@vlsi.ct.louisville.edu)
Thu, 4 Mar 93 23:24:12 -0500

I just got the new Glasshouse Works catalog. Here's their Nepenthes offerings
for this year:
Catagory 1:
$12.50 for unrooted cutting, there may be a several month wait
for rooted cuttings at $10 extra.
x Boschiana, x Chelsonii, x edinensis, gracilis nigri-purpurea, x hybrida,
x Kosobe, mirabilis (Thailand), x Paradisae, x Rokko, x wrigleyana
Catagory 2:
$22.50 for unrooted cutting, rooted for $10 extra.
x boissiense 'rubra', x Dyeriana, maxima, x merrilliata, spectabilis,
stenophylla, x 'Superba', x ventrata.
They'll send a "holdings list" on request + a stamp.
Address: Glasshouse Works Greenhouses
Church Street, P.O. Box 97
Stewart, OH 45778-0097
Tom Winn is the co-owner and grows the Neps. He's a nice guy and will
probably buy your extra Nepenthes for $10/rooted cutting or plant.

N. x Dyeriana is a neat hybrid with the largest pitchers of the types that
are not too rare. N. merrilliana (available for sale from Bruce Bennett)
also has large pitchers but I suspect only on very old plants - a photo
of N. merrilliana in Kondo's book didn't look too impressive.

I also have some to sell for $10/rooted cutting:
N. x (mixta x mirabilis) - I'm not sure about N. x mixta parent - pitchers
are medium-size and green. Plant may have N. ampullaria as parent -
lids are widely reflexed, peristome looks like it curves inward,
leaves are fuzzy, and pitchers are short and fat.
N. x trichocarpa - Natural hybrid between N. gracilis and N. ampullaria.
Plant strongly favors N. gracilis parent.
N. x wrigleyana (kosobe) (?) - Plant arrived labelled N. x kosobe - the
species list says this is an N. alata pseudonym - this plant doesn't
look at all like an N. alata. I thought it looked like a photo of
N. x wrigleyana and I saw on another's list that he was growing a
N. x wrigleyana (kosobe), so that's what I call it now too. After
getting an N. maxima, I'm beginning to see some similarity with
N. maxima, so it may be an N. maxima hybrid - it has a little nub where
the N. maxima filiment is on the forward part of the underside of the lid.
Pitchers are not nearly as large as maxima though. I suspect this is a
Japanese hybrid with "kosobe" being a cultivar name (well, it sort of
sounds Japanese if you pronounce it koe-sobe-ee).
N. x lecouflei - Originally arrived as N. boissiense "rubra" - from
that knucklehead Marcel Lecoufle - he also sent me this same plant
labelled N. x Dyeriana and as N. kampotiana. Supposed to be a hybrid
involving N. thorelli, which is a small-growing plant sort of
gracilis-like. New leaves are purple. Doesn't pitcher too well
after stem grows over 30 cm.

I may have later N. x 'Superba' and N. x balfouriana (this may be the same
as N. x hookeriana "cultivated-type" - mouths of pitchers very wide - may
be N. northiana influence??).

I would prefer trades of CP or orchids. I'll take orders for 2 weeks and then
sell the rest to Glasshouse Works. Send e-mail when you send a check so I
can reserve your plants. Postage $5 extra per order or free if you buy 3
or more. Because of the time it takes for international shipments, it would
be too risky to send the plants outside the US. Plants are grown 4-6 months
after taking cuttings - plants should be producing their first pitchers soon.
I'll send them mid-April to avoid frost damage.