HONEY-SUCKLE. 188 



the Honey-suckle. The Eitropean languages seem to vie 

 with each other in the number of names bestowed on this 

 beautiful favourite ; but the German has outstript all the 

 rest, in reference to this plant as well as most others ; the 

 greatest part of them having in that language at least a 

 dozen common names. There are many species of Honey- 

 suckle, and of most of the species several varieties ; but as 

 they are invariably beautiful, any that can be reared with 

 success in a pot will be valuable. They will live in the 

 open air, and in dry summer weather should be liberally 

 watered every evening. 



The common English Honeysuckle is also called Wood- 

 binde, or Woodbine : 



" So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle 

 Gently entwist." 



" Shakspeare seems here to have distinguished the 

 Honeysuckle from the Woodbine," says Mr. Martyn. Yet, 

 in Much Ado About Nothing, he uses either name in- 

 discriminately : 



" And bid her steal into the pleached bower 

 Where honeysuckles ripened by the sun 

 Forbid the sun to enter." 



-" Beatrice, who e'en now 



Is couched in the woodbine coverture." 



" Milton," observes Mr. Martyn, " seems to have mis- 

 taken it, when he gives it the name of Eglantine, and 

 distinguishes it from Sweet-briar, since the Sweet-briar is 

 itself the Eglantine : 



" Through the sweet-briar, or the vine. 

 Or the twisted eglantine." 



Shakspeare justly distinguishes the two : 



" I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 

 Where oxlip, and the nodding violet grows ,■ 



