210 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



success in a pot will be valuable. They will live in the 

 open air, and in dry summer weather should be liberally 

 watered every evening. 



The common English Honey-suckle is also called Wood- 

 feinde, or Woodbine : Titania says, in the Midsummer 

 Night's Dream : 



" So doth the woodbine the sweet honey-suckle 

 Gently entwist." 



" Shakespeare seems here to have distinguished the 

 Honey-suckle from the Woodbine," says Mr. Martyn. Yet, 

 in Much Ado about Nothing, he uses either name in- 

 discriminately : 



" And bid her steal into the pleached bower 

 Where honey-suckles ripened by the sun 

 Forbid the sun to enter." 



" Beatrice, who e'en now 



Is couched in the woodbine coverture." 



Ben Jonson, in the Vision of Delight, has the following 

 passage : 



, Behold 



How the blue bind- weed doth itself infold 

 With honey-suckle, and both these entwine 

 Themselves with bryony and jessamine, 

 To cast a kind and odoriferous shade." 



Mr. Gifford considers this passage as at once settling the 

 meaning of Titania's speech ; and indeed there seems great 

 probability that his explanation of this apparent inaccuracy 

 in Shakespeare may be the true one. " The Woodbine of 

 Shakespeare," he observes, " is the Blue Bind-weed of 

 Jonson. In many of our counties, the Woodbine is still the 

 name for the Great Convolvulus *." 



Turner's Herbal says the Convolvulus is called Bind- 

 weed or Weed-bind : 



* Jonson's Works, Vol. VI I. p. 308. 



