SE.VT TROPIC CA L TPORSIA. 
now lease of life, shorter or longer, n, iheir 
individual cases may lie. AH must , 1 ,,.. So 
Horn nil sooner or I*tor must pay tin debt 
t>l n«turo. Hut of this place it c'«n l,« said 
llmr iho day of demise is earned f> )r each 
further into tho future. 
There i* no rigor of din ate either ...I 
I old or heat. The vital forces are nut con 
a tuned in a struggle with the external rif 
cnmstances. This leaves the vital cnrrj\ 
of each person to he consumed in menu 
and physical labor. My observation ha* 
been that each person accomplishes from 
ten to twenty per cent, more in resulta, by 
r,' 
w\ 
f . ■ v 
1 *m 
jr~ 1 
Fig. S—Young Plant at Hw Comp'etioo cl >,romd Cycle «f Growth of f1v*L«w 
reason ol this oondition of climate, here 
than in any other place. 
The outlook fur the future of I .os An 
galea was never inure (Uttering, and never 1 
had a firmer foundation for permanent}*. 
To all who con tump late a change of tr> • 
denco 1 would say, iHUim and are. If, aftei 
looking over tho ait Hat ion, you are lot M t , 
isfiod, then do not stay here, bill pa?* on to 
the place that suit* you iivst. for von will 
moat likely fail in any place where you do 
not aen success. 
VlfftbRIA &EOIA. 
MUOlVKINli ulOHV on WI1MI I II V iio\ *K. 
I.OIOKX HATH I'AHK, “A V rtttv Kill, 1*1. 
T S' this number of the Skwi Tkoim< Cai - 
| lirott.xt*, «e present our readers wtlh a 
dimeription and illustrations uf the moat 
beautiful and rare of all aquatic plants. 
It is exceedingly difficult of culioatiotl. 
uml even in it* hoot*aeema U» find few eon 
genial localities; at least it is So r-eldom 
seen that traveler* are often i'oiu|-rlied to 
go hundred* ol miles out of then course U. 
see it in its unlive habitat. 
Ttm first plant grown in the l nitvd 
