NEW YORK, JULY, 1875. 
WAXEN HOYA. 
I have a long and familiar acquaintance with this 
plant, having raised one from a slip twenty-five years 
ago, and at the present writing this no longer youth¬ 
ful vine has a dozen clusters of blossoms and as many 
as fifty clusters of buds, fresh and beautiful as the first 
buds and flowers that gave me such exquisite delight. 
The plant itself has been cut back once, because it 
got frozen. At that time it had runners eight yards 
long, and was traiued from a low stool around a win¬ 
dow, completely shading it, and across two sides of a 
room sixteen by eighteen feet. Now, it stands on a 
window shelf and forms a compression at top, first 
climbing up the side of the window, then twines 
around a picture, a id makes a less 
luxuriant drapery above another win¬ 
dow, then creeps on to the corner of 
room. 
The leaf of the Hoya. is of a dark 
green color, and has a smooth, glossy 
other flower I can compare it with, yet are unlike that 
save in color and form. They grow in clusters of 
from twenty to twenty-five, the woody stem and 
receptacle appearing the year before and producing 
flowers often six times in a season, buds forming 
while flowers still hang on the stems, and continuing to 
flower year after year, I do not know but through an 
infinite series. The blossoms look as if made of flesh 
colored velvet, corolla star shaped, with five points 
not separated into petals, a waxen inner star, also 
five pointed, of a yellowish color, part next the pistil, 
dark orange. I think the inner star answers to the 
stamens. The cluster is in botany termed an unoped, 
the flower stems or pedicles being nearly of equal 
length, having no rachis. It naturally begins to 
flower in February, continuing until July, the buds 
growing very rapidly. It is much more beautiful than 
the English Ivy for a window, or for festooning 
around the top of the ceiling of a room, but does not 
twine round pictures quite so gracefully, and needs a 
frame, or to be fastened to the wall by ribbons and 
tacks, as it does not cling and is heavy. Should be 
washed with a sponge or cloth, leaf by leaf, to keep 
off dust, in luke warm water with a little soft soap in 
it, now and then. M. J. Allen. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
The beautiful designs of rustic work on the first page 
and page 104, are taken from the originals as made by 
O’Brien Bros., of Yonkers, N. Y., and are exceedingly 
tasteful. Their diameter is from 15 to 20 feet. Page 
100 brings before us a charming spray of Roses, of 
which we are now enjoying so many, and gathering- 
such fine specimens. This month the lovely Liliurn 
Laneifolium Rubrum will begin to bloom, which, to 
our fancy, is with the Auratum fully deserving the 
title of Queen of the Lilies. Pages 105 and 109 are 
sketches of sweet home life, needing no help of de¬ 
description for full appreciation. On page 108 are 
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It is feather veined, and thicker than 
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