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the cheaper wall climbers. Affine is the best variety ; 

 it has larger flowers. /. humile (revolulum), although 

 an Indian species, will succeed against a wall ; it has 

 yellow flowers and is evergreen. /. fruticans, another 

 bushy species, may also be grown ; its flowers are 

 yellow. Of course, the beautiful, fragrant, yellow- 

 flowered /. nudiflorum will not be omitted ; it is 

 bright with colour in winter. 



KERRIA JAPONICA. Sometimes grown against a 

 wall, but an excellent bush for grouping, except in 

 very cold and exposed gardens. The flowers are 

 yellow and produced abundantly. It should be 

 more grown. The double variety, K. /. flore-pleno, 

 is frequently seen against cottage walls, and making 

 a cloud of yellow from the double rosette-like flowers 

 in early summer. 



LONICERA (Honeysuckle). This is too well known 

 to describe. The Honeysuckle of the hedgerow is 

 as familiar as the Poppy of the cornfield. The 

 common native Honeysuckle is Lonicera Pericylmenum y 

 the best variety of which is serotina, or late Dutch ; it 

 flowers into the autumn, and is of redder colouring. 

 Belgica is the Dutch Honeysuckle and is of strong 

 growth. L. Caprifolium is not a true native, but 

 has become naturalised. Major is a distinct variety. 

 Then there are the evergreen Trumpet Honeysuckles 

 (L. sempervirens and varieties, minor being the best 

 known ; the flowers are scarlet and yellow). Plantie- 

 rensis is a good hybrid with larger flowers. The 

 Trumpet Honeysuckles are not so robust and free as 

 the late Dutch, for example. The well-known varie- 



