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natural enemies, the Fern-hawkers, just as wild 

 birds will come and huild in any garden where 

 nest-taking is absolutely prohibited. 



"But instances like these are rare; and in 

 spite of the present agitation in favor of teaching 

 ladies to garden, I doubt whether the professional 

 gardener will ever suffer much from female com- 

 petition. I can but advise all ladies who care for 

 their floAvers to supervise the hired gardeners 

 whom they are obliged to employ occasionally, 

 and never to let their gardens be put in order 

 while they are from home." 



About Honeysuckles. — A writer in the London 

 Garden gives the following interesting sketch of 

 the Honeysuckles known in English gardens. It 

 includes the upright as well as the twining kinds. 

 It is interesting, as enabling us to see that in 

 some things we are not f;xr behind English culti- 

 vators. The early variety from German gardens, 

 known as Magnavillse, they do not seem to know 

 anything of. It is much larger than the Paricly- 

 menum, and at least two weeks earlier than any 

 of that section. There are upwards of eighty 

 species in the temperate and warm regions of 

 the North. This genus was named in honor of 

 the German botanist Lonicer. There is great 

 confusion in the nomenclature of the Japanese 

 and Chinese Honeysuckles, arising probably from 

 the fact that many of them are garden varieties. 



1. L. Periclymenum. Honeysuckle or Wood- 

 bine. — This favorite indigenous shrub is sur- 

 passed by none of the exotic species in the pro- 

 fusion and fragrance of its flowers, but for 

 brilliancy of coloring there are many superior. 

 Flower-heads terminal, peduncled; upper leaves 

 sessile; berry crimson. There are several im- 

 proved varieties, including the Dutch, L Belgica, 

 the Oak leaved, L. quercifolia, and late red, L 

 serotina, and one with variegated foliage of little 

 merit. 



2. L. caprifdliura, syn Caprifdlium italicum. — 

 This species strongly resembles the preceding in 

 the color of its flowers, but the flower-head is 

 sessile and the upper leaves connate. A native 

 of the South of Europe. 



3. L. Etrusca. — Flowers orange-yellow, capi- 

 tate; heads pedunculate. I'pper leaves connate, 

 young ones hairy beneath. A native of the 

 South of Europe, flowering in May, though not 

 80 freely as some. 



4. L. sempervhens. Evergreen or Trumpet 

 Honeysuckle.— This in its different varieties is 

 one of the handsomest species in cultivation, 

 bearing its scarlet inodorous flowers in great pro- 

 fusion for a considerable period in summer. The 

 leaves are quite glabrous, oblong or rotundate, 

 glaucous beneath, and persistent during the 

 greater part of the winter. The variety named 

 Br6wnii, in which the flowers are of a brighter 

 hue, is one of the best. It is a native of North 

 America. L. coccinea and L. pubescens are 

 allied species from the same country. 



5. L. brachypoda.— One of the best evergreen 

 species. Leaves oval or oblong, glabrous and 

 shining, with short hairy petioles. Flowers 

 medium size, in pairs, pale yellow, and very 

 sweet-scented. There is a handsome and very 

 desirable variety, named aiu-eo-reticulata, in 

 which the foliage is beautifully netted or varie- 

 gated with yellow, with a mixture of red towards 

 autumn. This is undoubtedly one of the raost 

 elegant variegated plants in cultivation, and like 

 many others of its class a native of Japan. L. 

 japunica, or L. chinensis, is a form of this species 

 with more or less hairy leaves. [This is known 

 as Hall's Honeysuckle in American gardens. 

 Ed. Gardener's Monthly.] 



6. L.flexuosa. — Stems and young leaves hairy. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, purplish below when 

 young. Flowers pink and yellow, in pairs, very 

 fragrant. Japan. 



7. L. xylosteum. — An erect species with smaH 

 ovate or obovate hairy leaves and hairy j-ellow 

 small flowers in axillary pairs. There are varie- 

 ties with white, yellow, crim.son, and black ber- 

 ries. A native of Europe, introduced in some 

 parts of this country. L Tartarica is an allied 

 species with rosy-pink flowers in the common 

 form, and yellow or white in the varieties. 



8. L. fragrant issima. — This species is desirable 

 as an early flowering plant. It puts forth its 

 pure white highly odoriferous flowers in Febru- 

 ary before the leaves are developed. L. Stan- 

 dishii, very near the preceding, has purple and 

 white scented flowers. Both are natives of China. 



Lilies.— It should be remembered that lilies 

 should be re-planted as soon as the leaves are 

 dead, if they need re-planting at all, and should 

 not be held till spring before it is done ; and that 

 as a general thing they fail because the soil is 

 too hot or dry. They love a rich, cool soil. 



