THE HOYA CARNOSA. 
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ARTICLE VI. 
THE DISCONTINUATION OF THE NURSERY LISTS. 
BY A LOVER OF PLANTS. 
Having become a Subscriber to tbe Horticultural Register almost 
solely on account of the lists which it contained of “ plants flowering 
in the nurseries round London,” it is not without great mortification 
and surprise that I find those lists almost entirely discontinued. 
That you should positively have allowed the gradual decline of the 
most novel, and interesting feature of your work is astonishing, but 
it is still more so, that Nurserymen themselves should not have 
greedily caught at an easy aud costly maimer of recommending their 
collections to the notice of the public. Not only is the above man¬ 
ner of obtaining celebrity free from the expense of advertising, but, 
which is of far greater consequence, it is altogether untainted by the 
idea of “ puffing,” which attaches in a greater or less degree to all 
advertisements whatsoever. In these sentiments many of my friends 
coincide, who (since like myself they take in the more voluminous 
and expensive Horticultural periodicals) will not deem it worth while 
to continue the Horticultural Register, when robbed of a feature so 
exclusively its own. As an inducement to Nurserymen to furnish 
these lists, I may state, that I have this day received a hamper of 
plants from Messrs Rollissons, of Tooting, with whom, but for those 
lists, it would never have occurred to me to deal. I am also ac¬ 
quainted with many instances, where custom has been directed 
through the same channel, to various nursery establishments. 
A Lover of Plants. 
Newcastle, Sept. 12, 1832. 
ARTICLE VII. 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE HOYA CARNOSA. 
BY WM. P. AYRES. 
The Hoya carnosa is a native of China, and perhaps also of the 
neighbouring parts of Asia. It was first introduced to this country 
from China, into the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1802. The Ho¬ 
nourable Mrs. Barrington possessed it about the same time in her 
garden, at Monewell, in Oxfordshire, from whence it was figured in 
tbe Botanical Magazine in 1804, and in the succeeding year in the 
Exotic Botany of Sir James Edward Smith. 
