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iclymenum of which there are several varieties one 

 of which var. belgica, known as the Dutch Honey- 

 suckle, is continuous blooming) and L. Caprifolium 

 are or ought to be well-known favorites. Hall's 

 semi-evergreen Japan Honeysuckle (L. japonica, var. 

 Halliana) needs no comment and even more beautiful 

 is the Chinese variety (L. japonica, var. chinensis) 

 with red-colored young shoots and leaves. The 

 Chinese name for this plant, Chin-yin-hwa, i. e., Gold 

 and Silver flower, is singularly appropriate. Many of 

 these Honeysuckles are very subject to the attacks 

 of a black aphis and they can only be kept in good 

 condition by careful spraying with an antidote early 

 in the season as the leaves unfold. 



The Trumpet-flower (Camp sis radicans, better 

 known as Tecoma radicans), a native of Missouri and 

 Texas to Virginia, is a common and much appreciated 

 climber. The variety praecox and the hybrid C. 

 hybrida are also valuable plants, but these are' in size 

 and beauty of flowers surpassed by their Chinese 

 relative C. chinensis, though unfortunately it is much 

 less hardy. In the Chinese plant the flowers are 

 orange-scarlet and the shade is more pleasing than 

 that of the American kinds. All are vigorous grow- 

 ers with shining green divided leaves and they climb 

 by means of tufts of roots emitted from the stem oppo- 



