226 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



C. hirsuta. Hairy Honeysuckle. This is a native of 

 Massachusetts, found on damp, rocky banks, often growing to 

 the height of fifteen to thirty feet; the flowers are of a pale- 

 yellow without, hairy, and of a rich orange within ; flowers, 

 June and July. 



C. peridymenum. Woodbine. This is a vigorous-grow- 

 ing English species ; flowers pale-yellow, in June ; highly 

 fragrant. 



The variety belgicum, or Dutch Sweet-scented Honeysuckle, 

 is a well-known fragrant climber, giving a profusion of bloom 

 in June, which emits a delightful odor to all the neighborhood; 

 flowers yellow, variegated with red or purple. 



The Dutch Monthly Sweet-scented Honeysuckle is another 

 variety, with flowers somewhat like the last, but are produced 

 in succession through the summer and autumn, until hard 

 frosts. The buds, before they expand, are of a dark-red, or 

 purple. When the flower opens, the interior is pure white, 

 which changes to a cream color, and from that to an orange, 

 giving the cluster a variegated and rich appearance. A vari- 

 ety has oak-shaped leaves. 



C. flexuosum, or Chinese Honeysuckle. A very desirable 

 variety, with evergreen leaves, and delicate flowers through the 

 season ; stem flexuous and twining. Like many others of the 

 Chinese plants, it readily supports the rigor of our winters, and, 

 blooming with an exhaustless profusion, presents, from May 

 till late in autumn, rich wreaths of flowers, various in tint, 

 and of an exquisite orange-flower perfume. 



The buds are purple ; as they expand, the spotless white of 

 its gaping corolla is exhibited, with its protruding stamens 

 tipped with yellow anthers. On exposure to the air, the flowers 

 gradually assume a cream-like tint, and, finally, a perfect 

 orange color; and, as they mature in succession from the base 

 to the extremity of the branch, the colors are all present on 

 the same shoot. The stems and nerves of the leaves are pur- 

 ple ; it is nearly evergreen. In rich loam, the growth is luxu- 

 riant. 



