Юғсемвев 28 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 769 
Fio. 13!,—sywaNDROsPADIX VERMITOXICUS (Engler), 
might “ wear out ” their Vines too soon, This 
вз 
system —clearing out some houses and planting 
others every year; but this cannot be done in private 
gardens, 
e general conclusion at which our contem- 
роу arrives is stated in the following terms :— 
е are decidedly of opinion that the Grapes 
grown as ‘Gros Maroc’ and Cooper's Black much 
too closely resemble each other to be ah ве 
distinct varieties, and conse quently an exhibit: con- 
taining them muat be liable to disqualification 
КЕ SYNANDROBPADIX VERMITOXICUB, Engler. 
Like the rest of the group to — it belongs, its 
root-atock is а tuber, which is said to attain a weight 
bright green, 13 to 14 inches long, by 8 to 11 
inches in breadth, cordate-ovate, acute, with wavy 
margins, The e ote is produced with the 
e 6 to 8 inches long, which is of 
a light green, with darker ge lines ; the spathe 
14 about 7 inches long, and 3 to 34 inches broad, 
ornamented with short darker streaks. he lower 
part of e spadix which bears the f. male flowers is 
TW TUN beiog free, i di overed 
Чаке 10s}-purple gee surmounted by a smali 
head of blackish- purple anther 
Brau, that are more or less allied to this plan’, 
belonging to the genera Taccarum and Astero- 
atigme, which aman in character, and well 
quantity, I — - they 
18iaing them ging sen but lieve 
require to be cross-fertilised, ar, in the few cases 
known to me, where Aroids with an inf of 
this character have been ee pee, the result 
has always been a failure. Brown 
Our азе ылы of II 
Societies and others, are earnestly requested to for- 
ward innit the dates of Show Fixtures and of 
M and Horticultural Societies 
of any kind for io for insertion in the Almanack, 
be our issue for January 
aring Lent Term, 1896, Professor Bovrazm, 
ELS, F. G. S., A. S. L, will also de eliver a course of ten 
lectures on Forestry on Thursday evenings, com- 
*Synandrospadiz vermitoricus, Engler, Bot. Jahrb., 1383, 
vol. 4, p. 62. 
