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have a very pleasing fragrance. While not showy, 

 they are very beautiful, and as they are freely produced 

 and last a long time, the plant is sure to be popular 

 when it is treated in such a manner as to bring about 

 good results. The new branches make a very rapid 

 growth, and often reach a length of four or five feet 

 without developing foliage. They look more like large, 

 elongated and uncurled tendrils than anything else. 

 After a little the leaves develop. The first sign of 

 flowering is a little brown stem, which seems to be 

 nothing more. This, as I have said, appears at the 

 junction of the leaf stalk and vine. By and by you 

 will notice that the end of the stem seems to be 

 dividing, and a close examination will satisfy you 

 that the divisions are rudimentary buds. These develop 

 slowly, and finally become flowers. You must not 

 remove these "stems" after the flowers have withered 

 and fallen from them, for next season new flowers 

 will be produced on them. Therefore in cutting off 

 any of them you are destroying a future crop, or 

 crops, of flowers. 



The. Hoya likes a soil made up of peat, loam and 

 sand in equal parts. It does not require much moist- 

 ure at the roots. It has but few roots, therefore does 

 not require a large pot. If liquid manure is given at 

 flowering time the size of the flowers will be increased. 

 The only insect I have ever known it to be troubled 

 by is the mealy bug. To drive this away, apply the 

 emulsion of kerosene, prepared as directed in a 

 former chapter. 



The Coboea 



This is an excellent vine for training about the 

 arch and ceiling of a bay window. It is a very rapid 

 grower, often making twenty feet in a season. The 

 most attractive variety is C. variegata, having leaves 



