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Cobea scandens. Naturar Orver: Polemoniacee —Polemonium Family. 
ish missionary in Mexico (whence the common species has 
been introduced), is a very luxuriant and beautiful plant, 
often growing a hundred and fifty feet or more in a single 
season. The most common kind produces large, bell-shaped 
appear are a pale green, changing gradually to a beautiful dark purple 
under the influence of the sun and air. There is also a variegated 
kind, and very recently a white variety has been introduced. The seeds 
’ are large and flat, and should be planted edgewise, as, if placed flat, 
they are apt to rot before sprouting. It can be cultivated as an annual, 
or as a permanent house-plant; in either case care should be taken in 
pruning if entirely cut back, to see that there are young shoots sprout- 
ing from the root near the earth, to absorb the superfluity of sap, or the plant 
will perish. 
Gussip.. 
ALKERS are no good doers; be assured 
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 
flowers, nearly the size of a teacup, which when they first 
— Shakespeare. 
WEET were the tales she used to tell NEVER with important air 
When summer’s eve was dear to us, In conversation overbear; 
And fading from the darkening dell, My tongue within my lips I rein; 
The glory of the sunset fell. For who talks much must talk in vain. 
—Whittier. —Gay. 
Y lord shall never rest; 
TI’ll watch him tame, and talk him out. 
— Shakespeare. 
MIRTH-MOVING jest, OW hard soe’er it be to bridle wit, 
Which his fair tongue, conceit’s expositor, Yet memory oft no less requires the bit. 
Delivers in such apt and gracious words How many, hurried by its force away, 
That aged ears play truant at his tales. Forever in the land of gossips stray! 
\ —S, hakespeare. — Stillingfleet. ’ 
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