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division, construct a slight kind of railing or 

 paling, plant the honeysuckles about a yard 

 apart or less, if you think proper. Planted 

 in good soil they will grow vigorously, and as 

 they progress they will require training ; that 

 is, do not allow half-a-dozen young shoots to 

 coil themselves into a cable, but guide them, 

 either by tacking or tying, so that the whole 

 of the woodwork may soon be covered. When 

 this is done it will require no farther care 

 than to reduce extravagant growths to some- 

 thing like order. Never mind symmetry, and 

 there must be no clipping of shears ; let it 

 grow in its own natural way. A hedge of 

 honeysuckle is one of the most beautiful 

 sights in the world. Perhaps the Dutch hon- 

 eysuckle, with its various tints of blossom 

 (owing to the mutation of color each blossom 

 undergoes), is the best for this purpose. Bush 

 honeysuckles are charming objects for the 

 fronts of shrubberies, however choice. To 

 form bushes, place three stout stakes triangle- 

 wise, at about two feet apart and from two 

 feet to a yard high. Put on a good plant in 

 the center, or one at each corner, and as they 

 grow, coil the shoots or ' bine ' round the 

 stakes. They will soon make fine globular 

 bushes, and will, with very little pruning, 

 maintain their shape when the supports are 

 gone. Pillar honeysuckles are very telling 

 objects in the backgrounds of shrubberies and 

 such places. Strong rough poles, from eight 

 to twelve feet high are placed as supports 

 here and there in the background, among 

 shrubs. To these the plants are put ; they 

 soon run up to the top, and then fall over in 

 wild bold masses — very beautiful. The trum- 

 pet honeysuckles are more delicate in habit, 

 and do best in the most select spots, in the 

 front of choice shrubs, supported with neat 

 stakes from four to five feet high. The Loni- 

 cera flexuosa or L. Japonica, is evergreen, 

 and has a habit unlike that of any other kind ; 

 the delightfully scented blooms are axillary, 

 in pairs, not terminal, like most others. This 

 is the quickest growing shrub I am familiar 

 with, running from twelve to twenty feet high 

 in a single season. It will grow (but not 

 flower) in any situation, and is charming for 



covering unsightly gables and buildings. It 

 will soon cover almost any amount of wall, 

 on which, when covered, the branches should 

 be left to grow naturally. A dead tree, espe- 

 cially one with horizontal branches, produces 

 a fine effect when covered with this kind ; let 

 it be tacked or tied when growing to most of 

 the main branches, and then let it alone ; the 

 long flexible shoots will hang to the ground in 

 every direction. 



The Cloth of Gold Rose. 



ANDREW S. FULLER, of the Rural 

 New Yorker, expresses doubt whether 

 any of the newly famous yellow roses are at 

 all superior to the old and well-known " Cloth 

 of Grold," and speaks thus of his experience 

 with it : " More than twenty years ago I 

 purchased a plant of the beautiful Noisette 

 rose, known as the Chromatella, or Cloth of 

 Gold. It has been a favorite of mine ever 

 since, and, although many competitors of a 

 similar color have been introduced, like the 

 Marshal Niel and Isabella Sprunt, still our 

 old rose is without a superior. Like some 

 other varieties of this class, the plants do not 

 bloom very freely upon their own roots until 

 two or three years old, but then they make up 

 for lost time. When grafted or budded upon 

 strong Manetti or other free-growing stocks, 

 the plants will bloom when only a few months 

 old ; but the novice in rose culture is very 

 likely to allow suckers to grow from the roots 

 of the stock, thereby robbing the graft of 

 sustenance, soon destroying it. If a person 

 can only have patience, and wait for a plant 

 on its own roots to attain age or size, he will 

 be well repaid in abundance of the most deli- 

 ciously fragrant, large, pale lemon-yellow col- 

 ored roses that the most enthusiastic admirer 

 of flowers could desire. A six-year old plant 

 of this old Cloth of Gold rose has been per- 

 fuming my greenhouse for several weeks, and 

 to-day it is loaded with dozens of full-blown 

 flowers and half-opened buds ; and, upon the 

 whole, it is as grand an ornament as one could 

 wish for conservatory or parlor. Plants of 



