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glossy -green leaves. L. coriaceum (fig. 428) has very distinct -looking 

 roundish leathery leaves; Ibota has ovate elliptic leaves; lucidum, 3 ft., 

 has oval lance-shaped leaves; and sinense grows 12-20 ft. high. All the 

 Privets have white tubular blossoms and are easily grown as bushes or 

 mop-head standards, and all stand clipping well. 



Liquidambar styraciflua (SWEET GUM TREE). A beautiful North 

 American tree, 30-50 ft. high, with lobed Maple-like leaves which become 

 highly coloured in autumn. L. orientalis, 10-20 ft., is another species. 

 Grows well in ordinary soil, and is raised from layers or imported seeds. 



Liriodendron tulipifera (TULIP TREE). This is the beautiful North 

 American White Wood, easily recognized by its grey-brown bark, lobed 

 leaves with the tips apparently cut off, and the soft yellow-green Tulip- 

 like flowers at the tips of the shoots in May. There are a few varieties, 

 like aureo-maculata, leaves blotched with yellow; integrifolia, entire 

 leaved; and variegata. Grows in any good soil and is raised from seeds 

 or layers. 



Lonicera (HONEYSUCKLE). A large and somewhat mixed genus of 

 shrubby and climbing, evergreen and deciduous plants from Europe, Asia, 

 and North America. The shrubby or Tree Honeysuckles include such 

 species as fragrantissima, from China, with white or creamy-yellow, 

 sweet-scented flowers in January and February; hispida (bracteata) from 

 the Himalayas, 2-3 ft., with hairy stems, and drooping white flowers in 

 early summer; involucrata (Ledebouri), blooms in summer, the yellow 

 tubular corollas being tinted with purple red, and having a pair of purple 

 bracts; Standishi, with fragrant white flowers tinted with purple in 

 winter and spring, resembles fragrantissima, but has larger leaves; 

 tatarica, grows 4-8 ft. high, and has small heart-shaped leaves and rosy 

 flowers, but there are forms with white, yellow, and purple -red flowers. 

 Other shrubby species are tomentella, white, and Xylosteum, yellow, with 

 several varieties. 



Amongst the trailing or twining Honeysuckles the common British 

 one, Periclymenum, is one of the best. It produces its downy yellow 

 flowers, tinted outside with red, from June to September. The Dutch 

 Honeysuckle, known as belgica, is a stronger -growing plant; quercifolia 

 has lobed Oak -like leaves; and serotina has deep -red flowers late in 

 autumn. L. brachypoda has evergreen oval -oblong leaves, and fragrant 

 pale-yellow flowers. It is mixed up with flexuosa, which has long lance- 

 shaped leaves and pink and yellow flowers; and also with japonica (or 

 chinensis), a somewhat tender climber with red flowers. The variety 

 aureo-reticulata is an elegant climber with oval-elliptic leaves, beautifully 

 veined with golden yellow. L. Halleana of nurseries is closely related to 

 japonica and has white flowers changing to yellow. L. sempervirens, 

 the Trumpet Honeysuckle from North America, is almost evergreen, and 

 has brilliant scarlet flowers with a yellow interior. It is somewhat tender. 

 Other species met with are Caprifolium, yellow and purple; flava, yellow, 

 rather tender. Loniceras are propagated by cuttings, layers, or seeds. 



