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Flora M’Flimsy type. Dresses made up for ladies in the — 
early dawn of womanhood do very well for their grand- — 
children arrived at a suitable age; and, if this be not a rec- q 
ommendation, let us hope that the fact that some English — 
manufacturers have given the opinion that the silk from the — 
Cynthia may be made into shawls equal to the best India, q 
may somewhat reconcile our fair countrywomen to the use 
of an old article possessing the preposterous quality of being 
as good as new, if washed in a little cold water. 

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HE NORTH AMERICAN GrapEs. By Dr..George Engelmann — Perhaps i 
the first plant noticed on the continent of North America, even n before 
Columbus and before the Pilgrims, —a plant identified with the discovery 
of America itself, — was the Grape-vine; it gave to the country the name 
Vineland, and later, to a part of it, that of Martha’s Vineyard. A 
the grape-vines, many forms of which grow from Canada t 
Grande, and from Virginia to California, are among the least ee 4 
known plants of North America. Linneus knew two spec and i 
sagacious observer, the founder of the pl of North Pees Micha 
add 
ississippi. But even in their native haunts they vary to suc 
that srg scientific and non-scientific observers harg never felt mi i 
t th took to de describe 
conscienc 
confusion. Le Conte, long after him, did little to unravel the ie 
ment; and since their efforts to distinguish imaginary species. evet 
dency has rather been to combine what were formerly considered, ; 
by Le authors, as distinct specie home 
I have long devoted much attention i gt grape-vines n m 
(St. pr but have become satisfied that no satisfactory solu ughout 
be obtained without the coöperation of the friends of botany an | 
the whole country; so I ask from their love and zeal for mahi " 
and from the general interest saai this particular invete 
commands, their friendly coépera to stud! 
‘In order to arrive at ip using conclusions, it is nece sea wit 
all the forms which present themselves, in all their bearings: ? 
