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If heat be not available, cuttings of somewhat harder wood may be 

 dibbled in sandy soil under bandlights out-of-doors. 



L. ALBERTI, Regel. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7394 ; L. spinosa var. Alberti, Rehdcr^ 



A deciduous shrub of low, spreading habit, unarmed, becoming about 

 4 ft. high and twice as much in diameter ; young shoots smooth, slender. 

 Leaves linear-oblong, to i^ ins. long, about \ in. wide ; bluntish at the 

 apex, with often a few teeth near the base ; blue-green, smooth ; stalks 

 very short. Flowers rosy lilac, fragrant, produced in pairs from the leaf- 

 axils, each pair on a stalk about J in. long. Corolla-tube \ to ^ in. long, 

 slender, cylindrical, smooth outside, downy inside ; lobes spreading 

 horizontally, oblong, giving the t flower a diameter of about f in. Stalk of 

 the stamens twice as long as the anthers. Berries ^ in. in diameter, purplish 

 red, not united. 



Native of the mountains of Turkestan ; introduced by Albert Regel to 

 St Petersburg about 1880. It is sometimes regarded as a variety of 

 L. spinosa, which inhabits the inner, arid ranges of the north-western 

 Himalaya, and is not, so far as I am aware, in cultivation. This differs 

 from L. Alberti in its sturdier, spiny, sometimes leafless, branches ; in the 

 ovate lobe's of the corolla, and in the stalks of the stamens being only as 

 long as the anther. L. Alberti is a pleasing shrub of graceful habit, very 

 distinct from cultivated honeysuckles in its narrow bluish foliage. 



L. ALPIGENA, Linnaus. CHERRY WOODBINE. 



A deciduous shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high, with erect branches ; young shoots 

 smooth. Leaves oval, oblong, or somewhat obovate; usually tapered, sometimes 

 rounded at the base; slender-pointed ; 2 to 4 ins. long, i to 2 ins. wide; sometimes 

 smooth, but usually, with hairs on the midrib and veins both above and below 

 when quite young ; margins always hairy ; stalk J in. or less long. Flowers 

 yellow, deeply tinged with red, borne during May in pairs at the end of 

 a stalk ijg to 2 ins. long ; corolla \ in. long, with a very short tube protruded 

 on one side near the base, distinctly two-lipped, very hairy inside, the lower 

 part of the stamens hairy. Fruit red, up to \ in. long, cherry-like. 



Native of Central Europe ; cultivated since the sixteenth century.' The 

 species is very distinct among cultivated bush honeysuckles in its long 

 flower-stalks, large leaves, and large fruits, but has no particular garden 

 value. 



Var. NANA, Dippel. A dwarf form whose leaves have scattered hairs 

 all over the lower surface, more densely on the veins and midrib. 



L. ALSEUOSMOIDES, Graebner. 



A climbing evergreen shrub, with slender, smooth, young shoots. Leaves 

 narrowly oblong, tapered at both ends, ij to 2 ins. .long, averaging 

 about to $ in. wide, the decurved margins furnished with appressed 

 hairs ; otherwise smooth. Flowers produced from July to October at the 

 apex of the shoot, and in the terminal leaf-axils, the whole forming a short 

 broad panicle. Corolla purple within, yellow outside, funnel-shaped, ^ in. 

 long, smooth outside, downy within. Fruit globose, to J- in. in diameter, 

 black covered with purple bloom, borne in a close head. 



Native of China ; introduced by Wilson for Messrs Veitch about 1904. 

 An interesting and pretty climber, which first flowered at Coombe Wood 



