CHAP. LXIII. CAPRIFOLIA CER. LONI’CERA. 1045 
and which he had before described as 
“The pleached bower, 
Where honeysuckles, ripen’d by the sun, 
Forbid the sun to enter.” 

“ Gentle as are the first embraces of the honeysuckle, and of other twining 
shrubs,’ Mr. Denson observes (Mag. Nat. Hist., vi. p.330.), “ while their 
stem is yet tender, and through that tenderness, powerless ; yet they become 
with the age, size, strength, hardness, and consequent incapacity for dilatation 
of the stem or branch, effective agents of an obviously injurious constriction ; 
for the coils of woody-stemmed twining plants are scarcely in any, perhaps in 
no, species enlarged in capacity so fast as is the diameter of the trunk, stem, 
or branch, which these coils encircle ; that is, presuming the supporting tree 
or shrub to be in a healthy and freely growing condition.” Cowper, alluding 
to the constrictive powers of the honeysuckle, has the following beautifully 
descriptive lines in his poem, Retirement. 
“© As woodbine weds the plant within her reach, 
Rough elm, or smooth-grain’d ash, or glossy beech, 
In spiral rings ascends the trunk, and lays 
Her golden tassels on the leafy sprays ; 
But does a mischief while she lends a grace, 
Straitening its growth by such a strict embrace.” 
All the varieties of the common honeysuckle are beautiful and fragrant; 
and, either trained against a wall, twining round a pole and over a parasol top, 
or climbing and rambling among bushes, form great ornaments to gardens, par- 
ticularly when planted against other trees; which, however, if not strong 
enough to resist their pressure, are seriously injured by it, their trunks and 
branches sometimes becoming indented like a screw. (See Mag. Nat. Hist., vi. 
p- 331.) In a state of art and culture, where the gardenesque is the prevailing 
expression, honeysuckles, or other climbing or twining plants, should never be 
planted against trees or bushes, but always by themselves, against walls, rods, 
stakes, or other artificial supports. The reason is, that itis only when they are 
planted apart from other plants that they can be properly cultivated, and, con- 
sequently, display the expression of the gardenesque. Where the object is 
merely picturesque beauty, the honeysuckle may be planted close to the 
root of a tree ; and, being trained up its trunk, and allowed to twine among its 
branches, it may be considered as displaying the elegant picturesque. Planted 
among bushes, and allowed to grow up among them without any training 
whatever, the expression will be that of the common, or rural, picturesque ; or, 
if the shrubs are chiefly of foreign kinds, and are arranged in a dug shrubbery, 
the expression may be designated the shrubbery picturesque. These terms 
are of very little consequence in themselves ; but they are introduced here to 
show that very different kinds of beauty are produced in plantations, according 
to the manner of planting, and the kinds of plants chosen. The different 
varieties of common honeysuckle may be propagated by cuttings ; but so large 
a proportion of these do not succeed, owing, as is supposed, to the large space 
in the centre of the shoot admitting the wet during winter, and rotting the 
upper part of the cutting, that the more common mode of propagation is by 
layers. Both layers and cuttings are made in the autumn, as soon as the 
leaves have dropped ; and they become sufficiently rooted in one year. It has 
been recommended, in order to prevent the water from entering the hollow 
part of the shoot, and rotting the cuttings, to make the latter of double the 
usual length, and insert both ends in the ground, so that the cutting should 
present the appearance of a bow ; but this mode, which, it is supposed, would 
produce two plants from each cutting, can scarcely be said to have been pro- 
perly tried. (See Encyc. of Gard., edit. 1835, § 2882.) 
22. L. Capriro‘Lium L, The Goat’s-leaf, or pale perfoliate, Honeysuckle. 
Identification. Lin, Sp., p. 246.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 331. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 444. 
Synonyme. Pericl¥menum perfoliatum Ger. Emac., p. 891. 
Engravings. Engl. Bot., t.799.; Jacq. Austr., t. 357.; Engl. Gard. Cat,, 14. t. 5., Dodon. Pempt., 
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