The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . ploy a compost of sandyloam from turf, cut about an inch thick, two-thirds, and one-third equal parts offibrous peat, pieces of charcoal, and grit or crocks, from the size of a pea up tothat of a hazel-nut, with a free admixture of silver sand. Water sparingly fora time, but maintain a moist atmosphere; and, when the plant is growing freely,give liberal supplies of water, but avoid saturating the soil. A light and airysituation is necessary. You may take off a shoot in spring, cut it below a joint,trim off two or three of the lowes
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . ploy a compost of sandyloam from turf, cut about an inch thick, two-thirds, and one-third equal parts offibrous peat, pieces of charcoal, and grit or crocks, from the size of a pea up tothat of a hazel-nut, with a free admixture of silver sand. Water sparingly fora time, but maintain a moist atmosphere; and, when the plant is growing freely,give liberal supplies of water, but avoid saturating the soil. A light and airysituation is necessary. You may take off a shoot in spring, cut it below a joint,trim off two or three of the lowest leaves, and insert it in a pot well drained, andfilled with open sandy soil. It will root in a few weeks if kept moist and in agentle heat. Idem. — How to grow hoyas. — The hoya, or wax-plant, is of very easy cul-ture ; the common species, H. carnosa, doing well in a greenhoflse, or even in aparlor. The soil should be peat, loam, and sand. For culture oiHoya bella, which is the most elegant species, see AmericanJournal of Horticulture, vol. ii. p. AUTUMN-TREATMENT OF ORCHARDS. There is no season when our orchard-trees are so Httle cared for asdurhig the months of August and September; and yet that is the mostcritical period of the year as regards the health of the tree, and the cropof fruit of the succeeding year. Gathering the maturing crop (often with careless violence to the tree) soabsorbs the attention, that care for the future is forgotten. The double duty with annual bearers, — of maturing one crop, and pre-paring for another at the same time, — and the vicissitudes of the seasonof drought, often so exhaust the vitality of the tree as not only to damageor destroy the succeeding crop, but to endanger the life of the tree whennot protected. At the West, where excessive drought is the rule rather than the excep-tion during this season, is the statement particularly applicable. The formation and proper growth of the fruit-buds on which the succeed-ing crop de
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