TREES AND SHRUBS 



TARTARIAN HONEYSUCKLE, Lonivem tartarica. 



Gardens, shrubberies. April, May. Its freedom of growth, early leafing 

 habit, abundant blossoms, showy fruit, and perfect hardiness, all tend to make 

 this the most popular of the Bush Honeysuckles. Old and weak wood may 

 be thinned out in winter. 



Flowers rose, in axillary pairs, pedimcles shorter than leaves ; [Corolla 

 infundibuliform, short, slightly gibbous at base ; Anfliers yellow ; Fruit a 

 berry, red, nearly globose when young, pairs connate at base when ripe. 



Leaves opposite, cordate-ovate, slightly acute. 



An erect deciduous shrub, 4-8 ft. ; glabrous. 



Native of Tartary and Siberia ; introduced 1752. 



FLY HONEYSUCKLE, Lomcera Xylosteum. 



Copses, gardens. May, June. 



Floxvers white to yellow, dashed with red, inodorous, pollinated by bees, 

 sessile in aivillary pairs, 2 small linear bracts, bracteoles minute ; Caly.v-limb 

 deciduous, 5-toothed ; Corolla infundibuliform, slightly 2-lipped, saccate at base, 

 pubescent, | in. long; Stamens 5, exserted, curved, downy, anthers yellow; 

 Ovaries connate, 3-celled, style downy; Fruit a berry, globoid, size of pea, 

 purple-red, fused below in pairs, bitter, 2-celled, 2-6 seeds, ripe in September 

 or October. 



Leaves opposite, elliptic or ovate to obovate, base rounded, apex acute or sub- 

 mucronate, entire or serrate, dark green above, paler grey-green beneath, velvety 

 pubescent, l.i in. long, shortly petiolate. Autumn leaves brown. 



An erect deciduous shrub, 3-5 ft. ; much branched ; Tivigs grey, slender, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy ; Bud-scales numerous, triangular, downy. 



Naturalised in England. 



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