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another. Then there is a small crowd of pe- 

 tunias and verbenas from last fall's cut- 

 tings, — fine kinds, that I did not wish to 

 lose. Then various plants struck in my sick 

 room last winter, from baskets of greenhouse 

 beauties brought by kind friends. French 

 lavender, and a tea rose, and two or three 

 specimens of Solanum jas. A wee Cape jes- 

 samine too, which as it hasn't died through 

 the summer, may perchance take heart 

 and grow — sometime. Then there is my 

 Chinese primrose. It was given to me with 

 the kind wish to help fill the place of some 

 frosted plants of mine ; but has never done 

 itself much credit. When 1 had borne with 

 this state of things for a while, I set to work 

 to find out the reason ; and if Mr. Hender- 

 son's directions for growing Chinese prim- 

 roses could be exactly reversed, surel}^ in 

 this case they had been ! A glazed pot ; sol- 

 id clay soil that would retain every new 

 drop of water that ever came to it, without 

 letting go one of the old ; and large earth- 

 worms enough to make one think of an In- 



