HONEYSUCKLE HEDGE. 



HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS 



By the REV. H. PUREFOY FITZGERALD, F.L.S. 



With Photographs by HENRY IRVING 



THE FLOWERS OF THE HEDGE-CLIMBERS— I 



HONEYSUCKLE 



THE Honeysuckle {Lonicera Pericly- 

 menum) needs but very slight 

 introduction, for its beauty and 

 fragrance must be well known to every- 

 one. The Woodbine, as it is frequently 



The leaves, which are egg-shaped and 

 generally slightly hairy underneath, grow 

 in pairs, of which the lower ones only 

 have stalks. The flowers grow in terminal 

 bunches, and all spring from one point 

 at the extremities of the branches ; 



called, possesses a very tough stem, and, they vary in colour, being white, pink 



like the Convolvulus or Bindweed, always and yellow. The blossom consists of an 



twines from left to right ; it very often elongated tube, which is deeply cleft, 



grows as much as twenty feet in length, so that it appears to be composed of 



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