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a time everything was satisfactory, and a smile 

 of self-derision accompanied the remembrance 

 of the galls planted in the pots. 



However, when the next spring came and 

 some characteristic leaves sprang up in the pots 

 and were found to proceed from the "galls," 

 the smile grew to hilarity, so glad was I to find 

 that in point of lack of knowledge one often has 

 good company. Thus interest in the new-comer 

 continued. 



Year after year the long, naked stem ap- 

 pears, clothed at length with glossy leaves, 

 among which no insect pests have ever been 

 observed. An ambitious climber, if support is 

 furnished, it will reach the second and third 

 story of the house. When the blossoms appear 

 the cool summer morning is scented from them 

 with a delicate odor of cinnamon, and from this 

 characteristic the name. Cinnamon Vine, is 

 given by the horticulturist, who sells little 

 packages of the bulblets to his patrons. 



It is now more than ten years since observa- 

 tion of this plant beg;an. Its root, the wild yam, 

 is deeply buried in the ground, beyond the biting 

 frost. Although it is not indigenous to the 

 northern United States, and was not accounted 

 hardy in that latitude, after a winter when the 

 thermometer showed ten to fourteen degrees 

 below zero I have seen bulblets which lay ex- 



