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HONEYSUCKLE. LONICERA. 

 COMMON HONEYSUCKLE, OR WOODBINE. L. perictymenum. 



Plate 3, fry. 9. 



Surely I need not describe this well-known, delicate-flowered 

 shrub ; which is the emblem of sweetness of disposition from 

 its honied and delicious scent, and of generous affection from 

 its firmly-clasping shoots. These once fixed, be it only to a 

 ruined column, or a riven oak, still keep a firm hold ; and if 

 they cannot support the shattered trunk, they at least orna- 

 ment it with their beauties and their fragrance. It is too the 

 poor man's shrub, and smiles on many a humble -cottage. 

 " By rustic seat and garden bovver, 



There's not a leaf, or shrub, or flower, 



Blossom or bush, so sweet as thee, 



Lowly but fragrant Honey-tree. 



By stately halls we see thee not, 



Uut find thee near the lowly cot, 



Or latticed porch by humble door 



Thou leanest with thy honied store ; 



Dropping from thy bee-bosomed flowers, 



Sweetness through evening's dewy hours. 



Tree of the cottage and the poor ! 



Can palace of the rich have more ? 



No ! Sweet content as seldom dwells, 



In palaces as lowly cells." 



VIOLET. VIOLA. 



SWEET VIOLET. Viola odorata. 



Plate 3, fig. 10. 



Leaves heart-shaped. Fl. stems from the root. Calyx blunt. 

 The Sweet Violet is known from the others by being nearly 

 smooth in every part, there being no stem except that which 

 supports the flower, from the two side petals of the flowers 

 having a row of hairs upon each, and from the bracts on the 

 flower stalks being more than half way up. The plant creeps 

 along the ground by runners. Its time of flowering is the 

 earliest of the spring its place of growth the quiet recesses of 

 the woods and hedge -rows its stature lowly and humble its 

 color a fine purple, and added to all these unpretending charms 

 its perfume is the sweetest of the sweet. Truly does Sir W. 

 Scott say 



44 The Violet in her greenwood bower, 



Where birchen boughs, with hazels mingle, 

 May boast herself the sweetest flower 

 In glen, in copse, or forest dingle." 



