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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[January, 
country grows upon decayed trees, which it 
clothes with its fine green foliage. In cultiva¬ 
tion it is rated as a stove or liot-house plant, 
and it is one .of the few plants of that class that 
accommodate themselves to the ungenial at- 
improved arrosoir. Nothing can he more un¬ 
handy than the common watering-pot; it has 
two handles, one for carrying and the other 
for pouring, both made of flat tin, with edges 
that are very uncomfortable to the hand; then 
this handle is so placed that the pot is well 
balanced in the hand, whether it be full or 
contain only a quart of water; moreover, the 
rose is nearly as large as a common saucer, and 
throws a great number of minute streams. 
the wax-plant.—( Hoya carnosa.) 
mosphere of the dwelling-room. The engrav¬ 
ing gives the leaves and flowers of the W ax- 
plant rather less than the natural size. The 
leaves are very thick and fleshy, and remain for 
a long time. The plant is a rather slow grower 
in house-culture, and blooms less freely in such 
conditions than in the liot-house. Its flowers 
are in clusters, and have such an artificial ap¬ 
pearance that the name “Wax-plant” was 
naturally enough applied to it. They are 
white or rather flesh-colored, with a pink 
center. The flower-stalk continues to put out 
flower clusters, and should not be cut away. 
It being a climber, the Wax-plant is usually 
trained to a frame or trellis of some kind; it 
should have plenty of pot-room, and be well 
drained. Like all fleshy plants, it requires but 
little water when it is not in a growing state. 
There is a variegated form in which the leaves 
are marked with white, and indeed some of 
them entirely white. This is a still slower 
grower than the normal form, and is not to be 
commended for house-culture. The name of 
Hoya was given to the genus, of which there 
are some twenty species, in honor of Thomas 
Hoy, who was gardener to the Duke of Devon 
half a century ago; the specific name, carnosa, 
refers to the fleshy character of the leaves. 
A New French Watering-Pot. 
In the matter of watering-pots the French 
man beats both John and John-athau. We 
doubt if a Yankee or a Britisher ever improved 
upon the first watering-pot, while scarcely a 
year passes but the French have some new and 
it has a little bit of a rose, which throw's a 
spray over a very small surface, and the opera¬ 
tion of watering with one of these clumsy 
NEW FRENCH WATERING-POT. 
things is a trial to the hands and the patience. 
A French rose watering-pot has but one han¬ 
dle and that is round and easy to the hand; 
When Mr. B. K. Bliss was last in Europe he 
brought home some samples of a new style of 
watering-pot in which no rose is used. He 
placed one of these in our hands for trial, and 
we were so much pleased with it that we ad¬ 
vised him to have a stock of them made for 
sale. The engraving shows the form of the 
pot. It will be seen that it has a very long 
spout and the round and properly placed han¬ 
dle to which we have already alluded. With 
a handle of this kind the hand can be placed 
at just the right point for the implement to 
balance, and there is none of the strain upon 
the wrist that is demanded by the ordinary 
form. A column of w'ater of the length of the 
spout wiien allowed to flow comes out with no 
little force. As the stream of w'ater issues 
from the nozzle it is intercepted by a flange, 
which is cast in brass of a peculiar shape, with 
the effect to break the stream into the thinnest 
possible sheet of water, of a most beautifully 
curved form. At the upper part of the en¬ 
graving the form of the discharge of water is 
shown, as well as that of the flange which pro¬ 
duces the effect. It will be seen that the water 
is dispersed over a broad space, and its force is 
so far counteracted and it is spread so exceed¬ 
ingly thin that it can be allowed to fall upon 
small and delicate plants without injury. We 
are not an advocate of the general watering of 
gardens unless there is a provision for doing it 
other than by hand; hut hot beds, plants in 
pots that are set out for the summer, and newly 
planted things that must be nursed, all require 
watering, and w T e have described an implement 
which we think will do it more rapidly and 
satisfactorily than any other that we have seen. 
