£)01)Cl ranmsa. Natural Order: Asclepiadacece—Milkweed Family. 
KEEN HO USES, conservatories and parlors in our latitudes 
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. Iloy, an English florist, and carnosa 
from the Latin caro , flesh, because of its thick, fleshy leaves. 
s The branches are twining, and need a support to keep them 
an upright position. The leaves are of an oval shape, terminating 
in a shar P P 0 * nt ’ and are beautiful and attractive in themselves, having 
tmi. Sfe thC a PP earance g reen 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 
E^ removed, as they bloom 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. 
tiilphtnu 
QO stands the statue that enchants the world, 
^ So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, 
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. 
— Thompson. 
'T'O famed Apelles, when young Amnon brought 
1 The darling idol of his captive heart, 
And the pleased nymph with kind attention sat, 
To have her charms recorded by his art. 
— Waller. 
AN hard and unrelenting she 
1 As the new-crusted Niobe, 
Or,- what doth more of statue carry, 
A nun of the Platonic quarry. 
-Cleveland. 
TANNCIES and notions he pursues, 
Which ne’er had being but in thought: 
Each, like the G recian artist, wooes 
The image he himself has wrought. 
— Prior. 
MFb ———————— 
MY share in pale Pyrene I resign, 
And claim no part in all the mighty nine; 
Statues with winding ivy crown’d belong 
To nobler poets, for a nobler song. 
— Drydeyi. 
