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dried, emit an agreeable perfume, like new hay, and will 

 preserve this aroma for years. The name of this plant 

 seems to have been, according to the old orthography, 

 Woodderowffe, as we gather from the ancient rhyme handed 

 down to the present day. 



" Double U double double D E 

 R double U double F E." 



But it is perhaps in June that the hedges are decked 

 with the greatest grace and beauty. Then appear the red 

 and yellow blooms of the Honeysuckle (Lonicera 

 Periclymenum), which shed their delicious fragrance all 

 around. The leaves appear some months earlier; it is 

 indeed, 



" The first of wilding race that weaves 

 In Nature's loom its downy leaves," 



which present themselves in February or March. The 

 Honeysuckle is a persevering climber, embracing and 

 twining with tightening coil, round tree and shrub, thus 

 well meriting its old name of Woodbine or Woodbind. 



" In spiral rings it mounts the trunk and lays 

 Its golden tassels on the leafy sprays." 



In thus winding round the stem, like the Convolvulus and 

 other climbers, it follows the course of the sun from east to 

 west. 



Equally beautiful, and as sweetly odorous, are the 

 delicate pink and white blossoms of the Wild Rose, which 

 at this time brighten, at intervals, the whole length of the 

 lane. In some variety or other this has been the favourite 



