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coldest north winds of winter, funneled through 

 the space it occupied. It had been there for 

 some years and lived! 



I have planted one by a small porch on the 

 south side of the house, where it should do well, 

 and another in an exposed position on a higher 

 elevation. I have sought to temper the winter 

 wind by means of a piece of matting. 



The "gentle reader" may thus gather that 

 the aggregate of my hopes and anxieties is prob- 

 ably greater and will be of longer duration than 

 the pleasure of realization of the former minus 

 the failures. 



It occurs to me that this chapter had " Day- 

 Stars " for its text, and I have said nothing about 

 them beyond a cursory allusion to the stars of 

 the firmament in the early morning in winter. 

 The most beautiful day-stars in the shape of 

 flowers I have ever seen may be found in Ipom&a 

 rubro-ccerulea, but it can only be seen in its glory 

 in the tropics. In one of the tropical gardens 

 I have had there was a trellis, some 120 to 150 

 feet long and 8 feet high, which for nearly two 

 months on end each year used to be covered in 



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