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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ November 25, 1880. 
not of difficult culture, but the plants must attain a moderate size 
before they will produce large and satisfactory spathes. 
It is a native of New Grenada, where M. Andre found it growing 
both upon the branches of trees, particularly on Ficus elastica, 
and also in moist positions on the ground. Specimens were for¬ 
warded to M. Linden of Ghent, who subsequently exhibited it 
both in Belgium and England. The first plant shown in this 
country was submitted to the attention of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Floral Committee in April of the present year, when it 
was greatly admired, a first-class certificate being at once accorded 
for it. 
THE MAGNUM 30NUM POTATO AND ITS RAISER. 
No Potatoe .‘during recent years have obtained such widespread 
popularity as the Champion and Magnum Bonum. Their great 
Fig. 80.—AXTHURIUM AXDREAXUM. 
vigour has enabled them to resist the disease that has been so 
prevalent during the. past inclement seasons in a remarkable 
manner. These varieties have not only attracted much attention 
in different ways and from various causes, but they have proved 
of real usefulness ; for in not a few instances, when all other 
varieties succumbed to the murrain, these remained practically 
■unscathed, and afforded valuable and, in many cases, excellent 
food. An historical reference to one Potato and its raiser having 
been given on pages 440 and 441, we now give the same pro¬ 
minence to the other. The following letter, written by the 
raiser of the Magnum Bonum, tells the story of a life that w r ill 
not be uninteresting, and the history of a Potato that has proved 
its worth both for exhibition and culinary purposes :— 
“ I was born at Tuckton, a village about a mile to the west of 
