260 Creepers ant) Dines. 



variegata and marmorata, with variegated foliage, and con- 

 glomerate, a small and compact kind, fine for rockeries. 



THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Honeysuckle, Lonicera. Woodbine and honeysuckle 

 are general favorites on account of their handsome, sweet- 

 scented flowers and neat, twining habit. They are very 

 useful for porches and verandas, as well as for covering ar- 

 bors, fences, and enclosures. Some of the smaller kinds are 

 beautiful in rockeries and as climbers among other shrubs 

 in open and sunny positions. All require a moderately 

 rich and moist soil. For planting in thickets and copses or 

 on the banks of a river or lake no twining shrub can be 

 more useful than the evergreen Japanese honeysuckle (L. 

 Halleana), which forms dense masses of dark, shining foli- 

 age close to the ground, twining here and there among the 

 branches of neighboring shrubs. The flowers are tubular, 

 two-lipped, white, changing into a pale yellow, produced 

 freely throughout the summer. L. japonica is another al- 

 most evergreen species with flowers, red on the outside, 

 whitish within. The common honeysuckle (L. Caprifoliuiii) 

 is an exceedingly beautiful plant with glaucous, connate 

 leaves and large, terminal clusters of bright orange-yellow 

 or flame-colored flowers in early summer. The woodbine 

 (L. Peridymenum) has bright red flowers, ovate obtuse, 

 mostly glaucous leaves, and is similar in habit to the pre- 

 ceding kind. These grow in open woods in Europe, cover- 

 ing rocks, shrubs, and small tree-stems with their delicate 

 flowers. The trumpet honeysuckle (L. sempervirens) is an 

 American species with showy, scarlet flowers in spiked 



