VINES AND SHRUBS 



Trumpet Honeysuckle 

 L. sempervirens is often cultivated. It is found wild from 

 Connecticut southward. /•/' entless, with tubulai 



2 inches long, red outside, vellow within, in spiked wh< irl I '■• I 

 deep orange red. The upper /<</.■- join around the stem; tin- 

 lower are on short petioles; all bright, shining, ev e rgreen, smooth, 

 oblong or broadly oval. A twining and climbing shrub. 



L. glaucescens. — Color, pale yellow. Leaves, softly downy al 

 the veins underneath, sessile, the upper pair united and surround- 

 ing the stem. Corolla, a-lipped, swollen .it base, al.ont i inch 

 long, with stamens and style protruding, covered with soft, small 

 hairs. May and June. 



Woods, Pennsylvania t<> Nebraska and northward. 



VINES AND SHRUBS WITH PINK OR RED BLOSSOMS 



Hardhack. Steeple Bush 



Spiraea, tomentosa. — Family, Rose. Color, pink, rarely wl 

 Calyx, 4 to sdobed. Corolla, of 4 or 5 petals inserted upon tin- 

 top of the calyxdobe. Stamens, many. Flowers, clustered in a 

 dense terminal panicle composed of separate, short racei 

 Leaves, ovate or oval, 1 to 2 inches long, serrate, short-petioled, 

 with the stem and petioles covered with a reddish, thick wool. 

 Stem, stiff and brittle. July to September. 



Low grounds, roadsides and fields, New England to Ge< >rgia 

 and westward to Kansas. The leaves are covered with white 

 hairs underneath. 



Purple Flowering Raspberry 



Rubus odoratus. — Family, Rose. Color, deep pink. /■ 

 alternate, 3 to sdobed, the middle lobe longer than tin- others, 

 all finely toothed, acute. Calyx, 5 -parted, its lobes tipped with 

 a long, fine point; very clammy and hairy, often reddish. Petals, 

 5, large. Flowers, 2 inches across, several together, clustei 

 f-'ntit, like a raspberry, of many small grains, flat and red 

 falling away from the receptacle, not edible. Stem and peti 

 Sticky with glandular hairs, without thorns. June and July. 



A shrub 3 to 5 feet high. From northern New Englan 

 New Jersey and Georgia, wesl to Michigan. (See illustration, 



p. 4^S.) 



Swamp Rose 



Rosa caroUna.— Family, Rose. Color, pink. Leaves, of 5 

 leaflets, very finely toothed, acute a1 apex, dull green al 



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