This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V18", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Mrs. C. C. P., Aledo, Mercer Co., I11., asks, "Can you tell me how to flower the wax plant (Hoya)? I can make it grow like a bad weed, but cannot, as yet, make it bloom. Or must it have a certain age to bloom? If you can give me a hint in your excellent magazine perhaps others will be as thankful as I know I shall."
[Set it out in the full sun during summer. It will in all probability flower freely after that. - Ed. G. M.]
 
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