We have often thought of writing a word encouraging attention to this as the best vine for parlor gardening we know, but we are intercepted by a correspondent of Mr. Vick, and we will let him tell his experience: "Readers may be interested in the information that the Coboea scandens thrives well in the living room of our dwellings, provided it has equal temperature, light and sunshine, all of which we should find in every living room, if we would have it healthy. I have had a Coboea during the past two winters planted in an oblong rustic box on legs, four feet long, one foot deep, and twenty inches wide, filled with soil from an old hot-bed, where it makes a wonderful growth, and a beautiful bower of the bay window, trained up the frames of the middle window to the top, and from there on cords to a nail in the center of the arch, thence around the arch, and several feet on each side over pictures. In an East or South exposure it will bear many of its large bell-shaped purple flowers during the latter part of the winter; but I admire the bright yellow green, divided leaves, silky tendrils, and general graceful effect of the plant, as well as the flowers.

My friends accuse me of dealing in magic, but you know the secret is In providing the conditions required, viz.: temperature and soil, plenty of light and sunshine, air by lowering the windows very little when not uncomfortable to those occupying the room, and last, but not least, judicious watering, that is, not to let it wither for want of water, nor water so frequently as to keep the soil in a muddy state, and in that way make the earth sour, and thus rot the roots. I find such as are classed as hot-house plants thrive better in the dry atmosphere of furnace-heated rooms than those growing in cooler temperature. For the sake of health our living room is heated by a low-down grate, thus relieving us of dust and dry air, and we have no gas, which is, perhaps, the secret of my plants growing so easily." K. H. B.