subject — “ Escape from Winter,” who says — 
“ O, had I the wings of a swallow, I’d fly 
Where the roses are blossoming all the year long ; 
Where the landscape is always a feast to the eye, 
And the bills of the warblers are ever in song; 
O, then I would fly from the cold and the snow, 
And hie to the land of the orange and vine, 
And carol the rvinter away in the glow, 
That rolls o’er the evergreen bowers of the line. 
Indeed, I should gloomily steal o’er the deep, 
Like the storm-loving petrel, that skims there alone; 
I would take me a dear little marten to keep 
A sociable flight to the tropical zone ; 
And there we would stay, till the winter is o’er, 
And April is chequered with sunshine and rain — 
O, then we would fly from that far distant shore, 
Over island and wave, to our country again. 
How light we would skim, where the billows are rolled 
Through clusters that bend with the cane and the lime. 
And break on the beeches in surges of gold, 
When morning comes forth in her loveliest prime ! 
And when from the breast of the ocean would spring. 
Far off in the distance, that dear native shore, 
In the joy of our hearts we would cheerily sing, 
“ No land is so lovely, when winter is o’er.” 
Clematis calycina is desirable from its evergreen 
habit, as well as for its delicately spotted flowers, 
which are unlike others of its congeners. 
It should, as we have before observed, be trained 
to a wall, and planted in a tolerably dry loamy 
soil. It is the most readily increased by layers, 
which should be laid down in spring, when the 
young shoots are somewhat ripened. 
