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Gate. As we turn to go up, we must note the pretty 

 honeysuckle which garnishes the bank on our right. It 

 is a brave old shrub, with rather ovate, glaucous leaves, 

 and stands on the right of the lowest step, just as you 

 start to go up. It is Lonicera caprifolium and, in early 

 summer, bears yellow or yellowish-white flowers, whose 

 tubes are very slender, rather bluish, but not gibbous. 

 The flowers are in whorls, on the ends of the branches, 

 which seem to run through the uppermost two or three 

 pairs of leaves. This characteristic is termed by botan- 

 ists, connate, that is, having the lower lobes united. 

 If you look at this plant you will see that the two or 

 three pairs of its uppermost leaves seem to be grown 

 together. Its other leaves are mostly obovate, or 

 slightly acute. They are also quite glaucous. This 

 honeysuckle comes from Europe, and its very fragrant 

 flowers certainly give it a welcome place with us. 



To the left of the lowest step, the Californian privet 

 flings off the sunlight from its polished leaves in a 

 cool gloss of silver. By the Californian privet here, 

 nearer the left of the lowest steps, you will find Kerria 

 Japonica, Japan rose, often, but incorrectly, termed 

 Corchorus. As has been said above, the leaf of the 

 Rhodotypos looks very much like a larger edition of 

 the Kerria 's leaf, and you can here compare them 

 easily, as the bush just above, by the left of the mid- 

 dle steps, is Rhodotypos. The Kerria gets its name 

 from a British botanist, Bellenden Ker. It blooms in 

 late May or early summer with handsome orange- 

 yellow flowers of five elliptical petals. Its leaves are 

 thin, lance-ovate in shape, and doubly serrate. The 



