CAPRIFOLIACEiE 



COPIOUS-FLOWERING ABELIA, Abelia Jioribimda. 



Gardens, walls. March. Hardy only in favoured situations ; best as a 

 greenhouse plant. Outdoors requires sheltered position, and best in equal 

 parts of loam and peat with some sharp sand. Propagated by cuttings of 

 firm shoots in cold frame in July ; layers in JNIarch. 



Floivers rosy-purple, in axillary cymose clusters of 2-3 flowers ; Calyx 

 gamosepalous, .5-lobed, persistent, lobes nearly equal, oblong, fringed ; Corolla 

 gamopetalous, infundibuliform. .5-lobed, tube about 2 ins. long, slender; Stamens 

 5, epipetalous ; Ovary inferior ; Fruit a berry. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, petiolate, acute, crenated, small, glabrous. 



An evergreen shrub, 3 ft., sub-erect ; Branches straggling. 



Native of Mexico ; introduced to Europe by Belgian nurserymen ; reached 

 England about 1847. Genus named after Dr. Clarke Abel, Physician to Lord 

 Amherst's Embassy to China, 1817; died 1826. 



PERFOLIATE HONEYSUCKLE, Lonkera Caprifolium. 



Hedges, copses, gardens. ]May, June. This is a robust deciduous twiner, 

 which favours chalky districts. All the Honeysuckles like a light good soil 

 and sunny position, seldom flowering in the shade. Thinning out old wood 

 after flowering encourages growth, but as the flowers are borne on the young 

 wood which has ripened in the previous year, little pruning should be done. 

 The species are propagated by cuttings of firm shoots, 8 ins. long, in sandy 

 soil in sheltered position outdoors, October or November ; layering of shoots, 

 August — November. 



Flowers yellowish and red, fragrant, pollinated by moths, sessile in 

 terminal xvhorls in axils of upper connate leaves ; Calyx-limb short, 5-toothed, 

 persistent ; Corolla irregular, f-l|^ in. long, tubular, ringent, curved, limb 

 bilabiated, upper lip 4.-lobed ; Stamens 5, exserted ; Ovary 3-celled, style 

 green ; Fruit a berry, globoid, red, 1-celled, 1-seeded, mass of berries sessile 

 in axils of connate leaves. 



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