THE HONEYSUCKLE. 101 



there will be time for it to make new foliage (which is 

 very beautiful) before the winter. 



All pruning should be done to every variety of the 

 Ivy at the same time, then no loss will be incurred. 

 It is necessary to cut back and clip Ivies annually, to 

 keep them in good order, for most of them will run 

 into growth at the extremities and get barren below if 

 left undipped or unprimed. 



The Honeysuckle. 



Any lengthened description of the Honeysuckle is 

 almost useless, as it is pretty generally known and 

 appreciated by everybody. The uses of this tribe are of 

 one kind as a rule, and that is as climbers and twiners. 

 Twiners they are in the true sense of the term. I have 

 no doubt but that most people have at some time or 

 other observed how completely and strangely the com- 

 mon Woodbine will twine itself round a rod of growing 

 Birch or Oak, and nearly bury itself in the rod, by the 

 non-elasticity of the Woodbine and the rod of Birch, &c, 

 continuing to grow until a perfect thread is formed on 

 the rod. This shows the strength of the longitudinal 

 fibre of the Honeysuckle. The Honeysuckle flourishes 

 and flowers best in a warm and dry soil. 



The pruning of it is a matter which has elicited many 

 inquiries, some of which have recently come under my 

 own notice in the various journals. The Honeysuckle 

 gives out its flowers upon the short laterals produced 

 upon the well-ripened young wood of the preceding- 

 summer's growth ; consequently the pruning must con- 

 sist of shortening to a moderate extent the last year's 

 wood, and in no case must the preceding year's wood 

 be cut back severely. 



Again, after the laterals have borne flowers they may 

 be spurred back to an eye or two for a second crop of 

 flowers, which they will produce in the following year 

 if they are strong, but if not these leaders should be cut 

 clean out and new ones substituted for them, which is 

 the best plan. 



