soya. 
fjona carnosa, Naturar Orper: Asclepiadacee — Milkweed Family. 
gladly give shelter to these beautiful vines, which are indig- 
enous to the warmer regions of India. It has been called 
Hoya in honor of T. Ras an English florist, and carnosa 
Gein an upright position. The leaves are of an oval shape, terminating 
in a sharp point, and are beautiful and attractive in themselves, having 
the appearance of green wax; and the flowers, which bloom in dense 
“umbels, are supremely beautiful, being waxy in texture, and in color a 
most delicate rose-flushed white. The old flower-stems should not be 
. removed, as they blooth year after year. There is a variety that has 
a pale-yellow or whitish margin to the leaf. It does not require a rich 
soil. It has the habit, when well growing, of starting out its vine sometimes a 
yard or more before the leaves make their appearance, and care should be taken 
not to break these naked stems, as they are rather tardy in growing again. 
prulplure, 
O stands the statue that enchants the world, 
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, 
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. 
—Thompson. 
O famed Apelles, when young Amnon brought N hard and unrelenting she 
The darling idol of his captive heart, As the new-crusted Niobe, 
And the pleased nymph with kind attention sat, Or, what doth more of statue carry, 
To have her charms recorded by his art. A nun of the Platonic quarry. 
— Waller. —Cleveland. 
ANCIES and notions he pursues, Y share in pale Pyrene I resign, 
Which ne’er had being but in thought: And claim no part in all the mighty nine; 
Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes Statues with winding ivy crown’d belong 
The image he himself has wrought. To nobler poets, for a nobler song. ’ 
—Prior. —Dryden. 
a ae ok 
