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trimmed in almost to bare poles, are covered with buds within a month at 

 my window, and blossom all winter, great authorities to the contrary not- 

 withstanding. This winter, a Madame Bosanquet has led all the rest, 

 showing buds in three weeks, closely followed, however, by the Agrippina, 

 Souvenir de Desire, Safrano, Hermosa, and Sanguinea. 



The Chinese primrose and coral-drop begonia are never out of blossom 

 with me in winter. A heliotrope, occupying a whole window, gives hun- 

 dreds of its clusters, beginning in December. The orange, lemon, myrtle, 

 and diosma grow with the greatest ease ; and the Daphne odora and laurus- 

 tinus blossom in their season. Among other plants which I find it good 

 to have in a house, I will mention the varieties of winter and spring bloom 

 ing cactus, geranium, oleander, arbutilon, calla, Tradescantia zebrina (large 

 and small leaved), hoya, maurandia, tropaeolum, saxifrage, Coliseum vine, 

 Madeira vine, and the usual bulbs. Wm. F. Channing, M.D. 



Providence, R.I. 



THE STORY OF VINELAND. 



(Concluded from Vol. V , p. 345.) 



Other novel and advanced ideas were adopted at the outset, which, in 

 their good effect, can only be reckoned as second in importance to those 

 already enumerated. Chief of these was the barricade erected against 

 that curse of new colonies, the land-speculator. The farms on this tract 

 were all sold with such restrictions as made prompt improvement abso- 

 lutely essential, under penalty of forfeiture of titles. This plan, as can 

 readily be seen, secured immediate and continued growth, and was, in 

 effect, the best species of co-operation, as each, by advancing his own 

 interest, advanced the interest of his neighbor ; and none could share in 

 the common profit without having paid the price. 



The second of the minor principles consisted in the doing away with 

 fences. This is a greater gain than may at first sight appear. An intelli- 



