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By Henry T. Williams. 
NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1877, 
No. 72. 
Price 12 Cents. 
CINNAMON VINE. 
Yon ask for information concerning the culture of 
the “ Cinnamon Vine/ 5 and my success therewith. I 
am frank to confess that though dis¬ 
appointed as to the “ delightful” cin¬ 
namon odor and delicate white blos¬ 
soms, nevertheless, on account of its 
rapid growth and beautiful symmetry 
of foliage, the vine is a perfect pet 
with me. Its deeply ribbed, opposite, 
arrow-shaped leaves; the tiny pota¬ 
toes in the axil of each leaf, are both 
novel and attractive. Then, as fall 
approaches, each leaf assumes that 
clean, clear yellow of the autumn 
hickory ; simultaneously they fall, 
and your Cinnamon Vine is extinct! 
Last year I bought a yearling tuber 
from the Floral Cabinet ; I can 
now give my experience in two en¬ 
tirely different localities. One was 
experimented with in Barnesville, 
Ga., the other in Alachua County, 
Fla. 
In the former place I planted the 
tuber in a box; kept it in a warm 
plastered basement room. It was a foot high in April 
when I moved it in the open air. In this state I put 
my tuber in a box in February.- and shoved it under 
the bed, as we were domiciled in a cabin, and badly 
crowded. We moved into better quarters in March, 
Basket for Cut Flowers and Leaves. 
Vase of Cut Flowers. 
and the box was placed on the veranda; but in vain 
I looked for shoot or offset. At length, in June, three 
bold shoots were a hand high when I discovered them. 
They grew like Jonah’s gourd, and were at the top of 
the veranda on one string before I could separate or 
arrange them ; but neither blossom nor potato have 
yet made their appearance, though the autumn is upon 
us. The gale is over, and these fresh brisk winds are 
not our sea breezes nor soft balmy zephyrs. 
I divided my tuber with Miss Belle Mitchell, of 
Barnesville. who, I believe, is a subscriber to the 
Cabinet, and I would be glad to hear her experience 
with a portion of the same root. In Georgia I trained 
my vine laterally ; it ran two yards, and the potatoes 
were odd little pets of mine. This year the lattice 
was upright, the soil dry alike, and I thought possibly 
that was why it did not seed itself. 
So much on this subject. Now let me say a word 
of “ my Floral Cabinet,” surrounded by Magnolia and 
orange, hickory and oak, and long moss. The night¬ 
blooming and double Arabian Jessamine, Salvia 
Splendens, Oleanders, white and double pink, have 
bloomed all the year in the open ground from last 
year’s stocks. The Oak Geranium was not blighted 
in the least. The Golden Dew-Drop, with its charm¬ 
ing clusters of golden berries, and my Georgia Abu- 
tilons, white and red, and pink and 
scarlet Geraniums, have been a joy 
and beauty since early spring. L. L. 
WHALE OIL SOAP. 
I have found this soap to be a most 
effectual destroyer of worms and in¬ 
sects on plants and in the earth. For 
slugs on rosebushes, and all the nu¬ 
merous enemies of the Rose, it is cer¬ 
tain death. 
The plants should be showered with 
a weak solution. That which falls 
upon the ground will be useful in en¬ 
riching the soil and killing whatever 
worms may be there. 
The soap should be prepared for 
use by dissolving a small bit of the 
same in a quart or two of boiling wa 
ter, then adding as much cold soft 
water as necessary. If a leaf will turn 
brown in the liquid, it shows it to be 
too strong. N. S. 
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