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Besides the plants noticed here, there are to be seen 

 many others which keep their leaves a part of the 

 winter, but more or less discolored or changed, and 

 therefore not to be counted among those mentioned. 

 With so fine a store of lasting plants, it would be 

 very easy to have the pleasure of a continual green in 

 the gardens, and to make famous winter-gardens. 

 Many of the European annual plants keep green and 

 in bloom throughout the winter, but in the heat of 

 summer die away, at which time the indigenous an- 

 nuals begin to shoot, and last through the hot season 

 into September. But gardening is not very much in 

 vogue and is generally left to ignorant negroes. Nor 

 is it very long since all cabbages, pot-herbs, colly- 

 flowers, and other garden-vegetables, were brought 

 from the Bermuda islands to the Charleston market. 

 A skilful English gardener, Mr. Squibb, had first to 

 show the inhabitants that they could abundantly supply 

 themselves if they would only make the necessary 

 changes in the culture of vegetables, which the nature 

 of the climate demanded. For these do not thrive so 

 well throughout the summer as in the spring and the 

 fall, and are to be kept in the open the winter through, 

 green and growing. Root-plants, as radishes and yel- 

 low and white turnips, hold their own and grow even 

 during the summer, but far less well than in the 

 spring and the fall. 



Of fruit trees they have pears, apples, peaches, 

 plums, and cherries. Apples and peaches, which are 

 not particularly good, are ripe in June. These and 

 other transplanted fruits mature so rapidly that they 

 have not, it may be for that reason, so good a taste as 

 in the northern country. Most of these fruits bloom 



