FLOWERING SHRUBS 



showy and clustered in loose terminal heads ; the tube is very 

 slender, and the segments of the corolla are narrowly pointed. 



This shrub seems to accommodate itself to circumstances, 

 as it does not attempt to climb when transplanted to open 

 ground, but forms a compact bush. 



The abundance of its pale red and yellow flowers, in light 

 graceful clusters and bluish-green foliage, make it a pretty 

 ornament to the garden, to which it takes kindly when trans- 

 planted; the only disadvantages are the evanescence of its 

 blossoms and its brief flowering season. The berries, how- 

 ever, are abundant, and are of a pretty light reddish-orange 

 color. 



HAIRY YELLOW-FLOWERED HONEYSUCKLE Lonicera hirsuta 



(Eaton). 



This is a large, robust species; the leaves are large, ovate, 

 and downy underneath, the upper pair perfoliate, forming 

 a boat-shaped involucre to the large hairy honey-colored 

 clusters of flowers, which are terminal. The stem of this 

 rather handsome but coarse species is woody, branching and 

 slightly twining; the hairy yellow trumpet-shaped flowers 

 exude a clammy sweet dew, which attracts numbers of flies 

 which hover about them with those honey-loving vagrants 

 the Humming-birds. This species is chiefly found in open 

 copses and on rocky islands. There are several other native 

 Honeysuckles. 



Closely allied to the Loniceras is a pretty flowering shrub 

 known as 



FALSE HONEYSUCKLE Diervilla trifida (Mcench). 



This shrub is often found on upturned roots in the forest, 

 but it also flourishes in more airy situations, as the edge of 

 open, cleared ground, in the corners of rail fences, where it 



